date:Jun 11, 2014
plantings and higher yields, following overall favourable weather conditions, coupled with adequate supplies of fertilizers and seeds. This more than offset the damage of 128 500 hectares of the main season paddy crop (or five per cent of the cropped area to the main season) following localized floods during September and November 2013 across northern parts of the Mekong River Basin.
Slightly higher rice exports forecast in 2014
Cereal exports in the 2013/14 marketing year (January/December) a