An Giang earns over US$41 million from rice exports
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang shipped abroad 83,920 tonnes of rice in the first three months of 2018 for US$41.1 million, up 18,3% in volume and 28.8% in value over the same period last year.
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In the first three months of this year, rice price was US$487 per tonne averagely, a rise of about US$43 per tonne over the same time last year.
Nam said that global demand of rice is forecast to continue rising. The good results in the locality’s rice exports in the first quarter of 2018 was due to high demand from traditional markets of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and a number of new markets like Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Tran Anh Thu, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that farmers in An Giang have used high-quality rice varieties in 72% of total rice farming area in this Winter-Spring crop, thus enhancing the quality of the province’s rice and contributing to facilitate exports.
Thu revealed that An Giang is developing the An Giang rice trade mark to 2020 with a vision to 2030, while preparing to issue a rice export market development strategy in the 2017-2020 period, aiming to improve the competitiveness of the grain.
