Source: tuoitre.vn
Farmers harvest high-quality summer-autumn rice in An Giang province – Photo: CHI QUOC
While rice exports to Japan reached 1,200 USD/ton, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, in the first 8 months of the year, rice exports reached 2.3 billion USD, up more than 8%. However, the export price of rice decreased, averaging only 487 USD/ton. With the ability to export 6.5 – 6.7 million tons of rice, the rice export value for the whole year is about 3.2 – 3.3 billion USD.
Entice businesses join
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to preside over the development of a project on sustainable production of 1 million hectares specializing in high-quality rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta. According to the initial draft of the Department of Crop Production (MARD) obtained by Tuoi Tre, about 1 million hectares of high-quality rice will be planted in the provinces of Dong Thap, Long An, An Giang and a part of Kien Giang and Can. Poem…
Mr. Nguyen Nhu Cuong, Director of the Department of Crop Production, said that these are favorable areas to grow high-quality rice, less affected by drought and salinity and climate change. This area has a basic irrigation system and has the advantage of being transported by Waterway.
According to Mr. Cuong, the project’s goal is to raise the level of Vietnam’s rice industry. Therefore, the project needs to have strong enough policies to entice businesses to participate, otherwise the project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice is just for fun.
Need a big field over 1,000 hectares
Mr. Nguyen Duy Thuan, general director of Loc Troi Group, supported and suggested that the project should have clear policies of management agencies to form solid links of the rice value chain. According to Mr. Thuan, the project needs to form large fields with a minimum scale of 1,000 hectares, and grant specific planting area codes to be able to organize synchronous production and trace the origin. Large fields also help mechanization be applied synchronously and thereby increase labor productivity, contributing to reducing costs.
Mr. Thuan also said that the export market now accepts Vietnamese rice in three segments: long-grain white rice, long-grain fragrant rice, and short-grain round rice. Therefore, it is necessary to standardize 3-4 main rice varieties and reserve 3-5 varieties to ensure continuous supply and quality of varieties.
In order to accelerate and help the project succeed, according to Mr. Thuan, there must be a mechanism to provide farming credit to farmers, in which businesses must guarantee this credit through purchasing agricultural products and offsetting bank debt. For rice cultivation, the credit limit for the whole Vietnam is only about 60,000 billion VND/crop. This credit line, if well planned, will help stabilize agricultural production.
Mr. Pham Thai Binh – General Director of Trung An Hi-tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company – emphasized that the project needs to determine the criteria for high-quality rice to be fragrant, delicious, especially safe (no pesticide residues). plant protection)…
Given that if farmers or cooperatives do it themselves, the goal of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice is difficult to come true, according to Mr. Binh, there must be a linkage model: enterprises providing inputs, consuming products, farmers produce according to the requirements of enterprises. This is an effective model that has been implemented for the past 10 years. However, Mr. Binh said that to expand, businesses are facing difficulties due to lack of financial resources. Therefore, the project needs to have a policy for businesses to borrow capital to supply inputs, purchase ripe rice, invest in dryers…
A lecturer in the agricultural economics department of Can Tho University acknowledged that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s warning that the land with saline intrusion and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta is increasingly volatile is one of the obstacles for the implementation. project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice.
After more than a year of testing, A An brand ST25 rice has penetrated the Japanese market – Photo: TL
Really need a policy overate
Mr. Nguyen Tri Ngoc, vice president and general secretary of the General Association of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, assessed that the deployment of planting 1 million hectares of high-quality rice in the Mekong Delta is a right policy to develop and raise the bar. rice industry. But in order for rice growers to feel secure with high-quality rice production, the first thing is to build a plan in a methodical way, associated with both domestic and foreign markets.
Mr. Dang Kim Son, former director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, emphasized who should start and invest? “Rice growers are obviously still farmers, and rice processors and buyers need a new set of actors. Therefore, the project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice must focus on the role of organizations. institutions” – Mr. Son said and said that the project must form an ecosystem of production and business organizations, in which enterprises (export and trade enterprises) take the lead.
Next, small farmers have to link up into cooperatives. From there, it will complete the infrastructure, apply modern machinery, and apply synchronous technical regulations. It is not necessary to produce according to VietGap, Globalgap but it is important to produce according to the standards required by each market…
“It is necessary to reduce the stage of intermediaries and traders so that the cooperative can be a substitute for input materials, seeds, machinery, technical services, and purchase of the right quality rice for businesses” – Mr. Son emphasized.
According to Mr. Son, this project also needs a policy to create a breakthrough for cooperatives and improve the capacity of this team, because so far, cooperatives often lose to traders in terms of capacity, capital, information. market.
Farmers harvest high-quality summer-autumn rice in An Giang province – Photo: CHI QUOC
While rice exports to Japan reached 1,200 USD/ton, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, in the first 8 months of the year, rice exports reached 2.3 billion USD, up more than 8%. However, the export price of rice decreased, averaging only 487 USD/ton. With the ability to export 6.5 – 6.7 million tons of rice, the rice export value for the whole year is about 3.2 – 3.3 billion USD.
Entice businesses join
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to preside over the development of a project on sustainable production of 1 million hectares specializing in high-quality rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta. According to the initial draft of the Department of Crop Production (MARD) obtained by Tuoi Tre, about 1 million hectares of high-quality rice will be planted in the provinces of Dong Thap, Long An, An Giang and a part of Kien Giang and Can. Poem…
Mr. Nguyen Nhu Cuong, Director of the Department of Crop Production, said that these are favorable areas to grow high-quality rice, less affected by drought and salinity and climate change. This area has a basic irrigation system and has the advantage of being transported by Waterway.
According to Mr. Cuong, the project’s goal is to raise the level of Vietnam’s rice industry. Therefore, the project needs to have strong enough policies to entice businesses to participate, otherwise the project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice is just for fun.
Need a big field over 1,000 hectares
Mr. Nguyen Duy Thuan, general director of Loc Troi Group, supported and suggested that the project should have clear policies of management agencies to form solid links of the rice value chain. According to Mr. Thuan, the project needs to form large fields with a minimum scale of 1,000 hectares, and grant specific planting area codes to be able to organize synchronous production and trace the origin. Large fields also help mechanization be applied synchronously and thereby increase labor productivity, contributing to reducing costs.
Mr. Thuan also said that the export market now accepts Vietnamese rice in three segments: long-grain white rice, long-grain fragrant rice, and short-grain round rice. Therefore, it is necessary to standardize 3-4 main rice varieties and reserve 3-5 varieties to ensure continuous supply and quality of varieties.
In order to accelerate and help the project succeed, according to Mr. Thuan, there must be a mechanism to provide farming credit to farmers, in which businesses must guarantee this credit through purchasing agricultural products and offsetting bank debt. For rice cultivation, the credit limit for the whole Vietnam is only about 60,000 billion VND/crop. This credit line, if well planned, will help stabilize agricultural production.
Mr. Pham Thai Binh – General Director of Trung An Hi-tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company – emphasized that the project needs to determine the criteria for high-quality rice to be fragrant, delicious, especially safe (no pesticide residues). plant protection)…
Given that if farmers or cooperatives do it themselves, the goal of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice is difficult to come true, according to Mr. Binh, there must be a linkage model: enterprises providing inputs, consuming products, farmers produce according to the requirements of enterprises. This is an effective model that has been implemented for the past 10 years. However, Mr. Binh said that to expand, businesses are facing difficulties due to lack of financial resources. Therefore, the project needs to have a policy for businesses to borrow capital to supply inputs, purchase ripe rice, invest in dryers…
A lecturer in the agricultural economics department of Can Tho University acknowledged that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s warning that the land with saline intrusion and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta is increasingly volatile is one of the obstacles for the implementation. project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice.
After more than a year of testing, A An brand ST25 rice has penetrated the Japanese market – Photo: TL
Really need a policy overate
Mr. Nguyen Tri Ngoc, vice president and general secretary of the General Association of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, assessed that the deployment of planting 1 million hectares of high-quality rice in the Mekong Delta is a right policy to develop and raise the bar. rice industry. But in order for rice growers to feel secure with high-quality rice production, the first thing is to build a plan in a methodical way, associated with both domestic and foreign markets.
Mr. Dang Kim Son, former director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, emphasized who should start and invest? “Rice growers are obviously still farmers, and rice processors and buyers need a new set of actors. Therefore, the project of 1 million hectares of high-quality rice must focus on the role of organizations. institutions” – Mr. Son said and said that the project must form an ecosystem of production and business organizations, in which enterprises (export and trade enterprises) take the lead.
Next, small farmers have to link up into cooperatives. From there, it will complete the infrastructure, apply modern machinery, and apply synchronous technical regulations. It is not necessary to produce according to VietGap, Globalgap but it is important to produce according to the standards required by each market…
“It is necessary to reduce the stage of intermediaries and traders so that the cooperative can be a substitute for input materials, seeds, machinery, technical services, and purchase of the right quality rice for businesses” – Mr. Son emphasized.
According to Mr. Son, this project also needs a policy to create a breakthrough for cooperatives and improve the capacity of this team, because so far, cooperatives often lose to traders in terms of capacity, capital, information. market.
