Door to world market opens for Vietnam’s rice exportersVietNamNet Bridge - After winning bids to sell rice to Indonesia and the Philippines, Vietnamese exporters are attending a bid to sell rice to South Korea and preparing for another contract with the Philippines. The door to world market opens for Vietnamese rice exportersPham Thai Binh, director of Trung An Hi-tech Agriculture JSC, said in Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon newspaper that his company and other exporters had offered to sell rice to South Korea. Thanh Nien newspaper commented that Vietnam’s export markets have expanded, which means less heavy reliance on China as the major export market. In the domestic market, rice merchants in Ba Dac wholesale Market in Tien Giang province said the rice price rose after Vietnam won the bid to sell rice to the Philippines on May 4. RELATED NEWSVietnamese prefer Thailand’s expensive rice to Vietnam’s cheap riceAuspicious start to Vietnamese rice export in 2018Kim Chi

Source: VietNamNet News May 15, 2018 09:11 UTC