Rice output up 1.1 million tons in 2021
Vietnam’s rice output topped 43.86 million tons in 2021, up 1.1 million tons year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Despite decreasing rice-growing area, farmers still earn profits
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) stated that although the rice-growing areas reduced, increasing rice yields, stable export of rice, and high selling prices have been beneficial for farmers at a conference to preliminarily summarize the production of the winter-spring rice crop 2020-2021, and deploy production of the summer-autumn, autumn-winter, and the winter rice crops in the South, held on the morning of March 24 in Can Tho.