South region harvests 11 million tonnes of Winter-Spring rice
The rice output during the 2017-2018 Winter-Spring crop in the southern region is estimated to reach 11.1 million tonnes, up over 1 million tonnes on a yearly basis.
AnGiang (VNA) – The riceoutput during the 2017-2018 Winter-Spring crop in the southern region isestimated to reach 11.1 million tonnes, up over 1 million tonnes on a yearlybasis.
Reportsdelivered at a conference in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang province onMarch 7 said the increase was attributable partly to an expansion of 58,256 ha in total rice area and partly toa rise of 454kg per ha in rice yield. Southern localities planted rice ona total area of 1.6 million ha during thecrop.
According to the Department of Crop Production under the Ministry ofAgricultural and Rural Development (MARD), the region will accelerate restructuringof cultivation in the 2018 Summer-Autumn crop through apply comprehensively technicalsolutions, towards increasing quality, sustainable value.
In the 2018 Summer-Autumn crop, the region will cultivate rice on a total areaof 1.74 million ha, with an estimated yield of 9.77 million tonnes, up 277,000tonnes on a yearly basis.
In his speech at the conference, MARD Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh noted that regionalfarmers had a bumper harvest in the 2017-2018Winter-Spring crop.
He asked localities in the region to devise measures to increase rice yield inthe 2018 Summer-Autumn crop.
Thesouthern region is the biggest rice production area in Vietnam. The country may export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2018, according to DeputyMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan.
Last year, Vietnam earned 2.6 billion USD from exporting 5.8 milliontonnes of rice.-VNA
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Rice harvest in Mekong Delta region (Source: VNA) 
