date:Aug 14, 2012
livestock and plant diseases, as well as a lack of funding and falling prices for many key products.
However, Head of the Plantation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Nguyen Tri Ngoc, says rice production will develop in a new way aimed at protecting farmers interests.
In July alone, more than 23,000 hectares of summer-autumn rice were under cultivation, equivalent to around 103 percent in the same period last year. Mekong Delta provinces harvested 600,