A bumper rice harvest for Vietnam

Provinces and cities have harvested more than 18.6 million tonnes of winter-spring rice, an increase of 312,000 tonnes compared with the same crop last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Thanks to favourable weather conditions and the agricultural extension programme, northern farmers had a bumper crop this year, yielding a total of more than 6.8 million tonnes, up 120,000 tonnes.

Meanwhile, farmers in the Mekong River Delta – the country’s largest rice granary - harvested 9.8 million tonnes, up 23,000 tonnes. This year, they focused on planting high-quality rice strains for export and several special strains for local consumption.

The MARD has instructed southern farmers to begin transplanting summer-autumn and autumn-winter rice and at the same time encouraged them to expand the acreage.

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