date:Aug 12, 2014
Six international suppliers are likely to bid for state contracts to ship up to 500,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines in a tender later this month, the country's grains procurement agency said on Monday.
Prospective participants in the Aug. 27 tender are Vietnam's state-owned exporters Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2, South Korea's LG International, and global commodities traders Olam International Ltd, Louis Dreyfus and Archer Daniels Midland Co, according to a list of groups which bought biddin