Dr. Le Toan Thuy, an overseas Vietnamese scientist in France, has joined projects to help Vietnamese managers and farmers effectively develop rice cultivation models in the Mekong Delta region.

VOV.VN - India’s official ban placed on broken rice has led to a negative impact on the global rice market, resulting in the price of Vietnamese rice to increase sharply and surpass that of Thai rice, according to details given by the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

Vietnam’s rice export is likely to surpass the target set for this year, said Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association Nguyen Ngoc Nam.

VOV.VN - A number of Vietnamese rice businesses are planning to export high-quality products like ST25 to demanding markets such as Japan, Australia, the UK, and the EU.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese private business named Ho Quang Tri that specializes in rice, corn and other cereal grains, recently signed a contract with EUTEK Group Ltd of the UK to exclusively distribute the ST25 rice in the UK market.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese rice product branded ‘Com Vietnam’ was introduced on September 6 at hypermarkets run by French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation Carrefour.

Vietnamese businesses are advised to better exploit the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) to build, develop brands and expand their presence in the UK market amid stiffer competition driven by the “Global Britain” policy.

A Vietnamese rice product has for the first time been put on the shelves of E.Leclerc Viry Châtillon, a hypermarket run by top French retailer E.Leclerc, as part of a programme run by the Vietnam Trade Office in France.

VOV.VN - Bangladesh is putting final touches to deals to import hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice from Vietnam and India in order to address the food price crisis in the country, reported Reuters.

The UK market still has considerable room for Vietnamese rice suppliers to boost exports thanks to the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) tariff quota and the Vietnamese community of more than 100,000 people in the UK, a senior trade official has said.