date:Mar 18, 2014
ies under the plan, State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Binh was quoted in the statement as saying. The Agriculture Ministry had earlier this year proposed the government allow the stockpiling of 1 million tonnes of rice, or 2 million tonnes of paddy, as harvesting of the winter-spring crop, the country's largest crop, peaks from mid-March.
Vietnam is now eyeing the Philippines' plan to import as much as 800,000 tonnes of rice via a government-to-government deal in a tender that may be h