Vietnam Agricultural Products

Impressive statistics on Vietnam's rice exports In the latest report of the US Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Services (USDA-FAS), the Philippines will overtake China as the world's largest rice importer in 2019. the Philippines is expected to import three million tons of white rice in 2019, accounting for 7% of total global rice imports. Meanwhile, large markets like China only imported only 2.5 million tons, lower than the forecast of 3.15 million tons announced earlier. This decline is believed to be due to the domestic supply meeting the demand of the market. However, it is also forecast that the Philippines will reduce white rice imports in 2020 in the context that the country has made certain progress in domestic production. Specifically, in 2020, the Philippines is forecast to import about 2.5 million tons of rice.   With the trend of increasing white rice imports, the nation's rice reserves increased by 14% in September 2019. According to the...

  RICE FIELDS IN MEKONG DELTA- VIETNAM RICE Vietnam is among the richest agricultural areas in the world and. Rice production in the Mekong and Red River deltas in Vietnam is essential for food supply in the country and the economy overall. Production: Production of rice in the Mekong delta has seen a remarkable rise in recent years, although conditions of drought have impeded this development in some years. This increase is due to the planting by the government of new early maturing rice varieties, improved management, acceptable legal constructs. Cuisine: Vietnam is home to many varieties of rice: 504 rice, 5451 rice, jasmine rice, organic rice, herbal purple rice, brown rice, ST24, etc. The most popular types, however, are the normal white rice eaten at each meal, jasmine rice, humid rice widely used by the upper class, sweet or sticky rice called glutinous rice, steamed rice sweetened and mixed with condiments eaten for breakfast or as a dessert dish and broken rice, converted ...