VN warned Being the biggest rice exporter in the world,  Vietnam imports Chinese varieties, fertilizer, pesticide… According to Tuoi tre newspaper, the farmers in Dan Tai Hamlet of Thieu Chinh commune in Thanh Hoa province have been using Chinese rice varieties for the cultivation over the last 10 years. Especially, for the winter-spring crop, the coldest time of the year, the Chinese varieties are used on 80 percent of the rice growing area in the hamlet. According to Nguyen Ngoc Duc, Thanh Hoa branch director of the Vietnam National Seed Corporation, farmers want the rice varieties which bring high yields, which explains why they prefer Chinese varieties, though it is less costly to use Vietnamese hybrid rice varieties. Duc affirmed that the quality of the rice from Chinese varieties is lower than that from Vietnamese varieties. The general director of the Nghe An provincial Seed Company Nguyen Ngoc Dung confirmed that farmers still buy Chinese varieties though they are more expensive than Vietnamese. Not only relying on varieties, Vietnamese farmers have also been relying on Chinese fertilizer and pesticide. A report showed that According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Of these, the imports from Of the pesticide import turnover of $689 million in the first 11 months of the year (up by 9.9 percent over 2012’s same period), the imports from Who lends a hand to Chinese rice varieties to flow to …and sells rice to Chair of the Vietnam Food Association Truong Thanh Phong said This means that the exports to Director of Gao Viet (Vietnamese Rice) Company Nguyen Thanh Long has expressed his worry that the exports to Chinese businessmen asked Vietnamese exporters to mix low quality and high quality rice, which may badly affect the Vietnamese rice brand in the long term. Source: Dat Viet |
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