Farmers, wearing conical hats, place rice grain into sacks at Co Do farm in Can Tho ProvinceVietnam to halt rice exports until July as sales exceed target
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thanh Nien News (Hanoi)
Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest rice shipper, will not sign export contracts for delivery until June, after shipments in the first half of the year beat the target, according to the Vietnam Food Association.
The association will only register contracts for delivery between July and September, according to a statement on its website. Export volumes for the first half were not provided.
“We don’t want to be in a situation where we export too much in the first half and not have enough rice for contracts after that,” Huynh Minh Hue, the association’s acting general secretary, said by telephone from Ho Chi Minh City. “It is important to balance shipments throughout the year.”
Vietnam plans to raise rice exports in 2009 by 6.4 percent to five million tons as favorable weather aids the nation’s largest harvest of the year and adequate reserves enable increased sales, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Diep Kinh Tan said on February 11.
More than five million tons of rice will be harvested this month and in March in half of the 1.8 million hectares (4.44 million acres) of paddy fields in the Mekong Delta, agriculture minister Cao Duc Phat said on February 10.
The country also plans to lease land to grow rice in Cambodia to counter smuggling of the grain across the border, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing a report by Doan Ngoc Pha, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of An Giang Province.
Vietnamese companies will be encouraged to lease land in Cambodia and will be allowed to export rice to Vietnam, he said in the report.
Smugglers bring in hundreds of metric tons of rice each day from Cambodia, the newspaper reported without giving details.
The association will only register contracts for delivery between July and September, according to a statement on its website. Export volumes for the first half were not provided.
“We don’t want to be in a situation where we export too much in the first half and not have enough rice for contracts after that,” Huynh Minh Hue, the association’s acting general secretary, said by telephone from Ho Chi Minh City. “It is important to balance shipments throughout the year.”
Vietnam plans to raise rice exports in 2009 by 6.4 percent to five million tons as favorable weather aids the nation’s largest harvest of the year and adequate reserves enable increased sales, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Diep Kinh Tan said on February 11.
More than five million tons of rice will be harvested this month and in March in half of the 1.8 million hectares (4.44 million acres) of paddy fields in the Mekong Delta, agriculture minister Cao Duc Phat said on February 10.
The country also plans to lease land to grow rice in Cambodia to counter smuggling of the grain across the border, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing a report by Doan Ngoc Pha, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of An Giang Province.
Vietnamese companies will be encouraged to lease land in Cambodia and will be allowed to export rice to Vietnam, he said in the report.
Smugglers bring in hundreds of metric tons of rice each day from Cambodia, the newspaper reported without giving details.
20 comments:
Happy to hear that but sad to see the result.We have land which can be used for paddy plantation but no body do it and lease it to other. Currently, the rice market is high due to food security reason. I would suggest farmers to keep their own land and grow paddy by their own hand.
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Thank you to Vietnam for always thinking about Cambodia.
May God blesses you and your country.
If you lease land to yuon, yuon will take as their for ever....
That was happen to Prey Nokor land
in history of leasing land to yuon for economic and other purposes.
Yuon will smile, if khmer ever learned their own history of lost empire.
I hope Hun Sen and his cliques will not lease land to YUON.
Nope, Prey Nokor was not leased to Viet, but traded for beautiful Viet women. There is a distinct difference here.
You always fuck with my government.Why you don't fuck with your mom first and then....!
Anonymous said...
You always fuck with my government.Why you don't fuck with your mom first and then....!
This is economic 101 and the Vietcong government understand it more than stupid Cambodian government led by AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave mother fucker and that is to control production is to control the price!
Those who control the production will control everything! Now you know why Cambodia is being flood with cheap Siem and Viet products!
The destruction of Cambodian economy has long been coming and this could be the nail in the coffin!
if the report is true at all, be careful with leasing land to the vietcong bitches. remember koh tral, and the mekong delta? plus, these vietcong bitches aren't kuwait, qatar, united arab emerates, etc..., so cambodia must understand the difference. i know, although nowadays there are laws to keep other country from stealing from another country, still khmer people and cambodia have to be mindful of the past in order to protect and shape the future for all khmer citizens. god bless cambodia.
Please see the truth.
The Vietnamese ONLY want to plant rice on land where the Cambodian people do NOTHING WITH IT!
Why the Cambodian people sit and do nothing?
Why they wait that OTHERS do the job they also could do?
It is a good thing to use land for agriculture which otherwise is not used by the Cambodian people.
Always remember:
The Foreigners only do this Business in Cambodia because the Cambodians are NOT doing the job.
Whoever can run away, run away to Long Beach or other places, sit down their and give advice how to do it better in Cambodia.
Can you imagine what foreigners think about this behavior?
yes, remember koh tral and the mekong delta! the vietnamese is not kuwait, so don't think just because kuwait and israel want to lease khmer agricultural land that the vietcong bitches should do the same. these are two distinct countries and cambodia ought to be wary of the youn leasing or having interest in cambodia, especial in land issue. yes, don't forget koh tral and the mekong delta; thus, we have a good reason not to trust youn when it comes to our lands and territories! wake up cambodia! god bless us all.
See I told you!
There is reason why these farmers lease land to the Veit. Either they don't have any mean to do it on their own or they have so much land on hand. This is not new. It starts at least 2-3 years ago.
Why don't anyone here do like the Veit? Beside complain of anything.
Yeah I like moilak tuy!
ngong va!
khmers must be united!even outside or inside cambodia.We should share knowlege to each other to help our homeland!
To 2:37AM
Do you ever listen to yourself Vietcong bitch? Tell me what land did Cambodian people do nothing with it? What land? In fact Cambodia is running out of land and that is why there are so many lands grabbing going on in Cambodia and at the end dirt poor Cambodian people are left with nothing!
Yeh right! These Cambodian are nothing do the job as if dirt poor Cambodian people are lazy and willing to die of hunger? This is just another Vietcong theory and logic!
Convince me more you Vietcong bitch by birth!
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There is no such thing here. Go to Africa if you love big black dick, Pervert (11:56).
in the phnom penh post today (26Feb09), it reported that khmer interior ministry had already said no against this viet intention to lease khmer lands and territories to grow rice for export to vietnam. plus, khmer people question them why the hell they want to lease khmer land along the common border to grow rice for vietnam? doesn't make sense to khmer people at all! plus, the borderlines are not all properly marked yet, so, why would khmer people and gov't be so dumb to go with vietnamese plan to lease khmer lands to viet company to grow rice in order to export only to vietnam. talk about the vietnam stupid plan thinking that khmer people are so dumb to buy into that or something. of course, we can never trust youn with leasing our lands etc... we remember too vividly our koh tral, and the mekong delta area that youn took from khmer. of course, when it comes to lands issue, khmer people will never trust youn intention on cambodia! look, we are not in the dark ages or stone ages when there was no real borderline and no real laws then; but nowadays, everything is spelled into law and protected by international law all over the world as well, so what make the stupid, greedy vietcong bitches think they can just come over cambodia and take over like during the dark ages again? how stupid can they be to have the old attitude that they can just invade cambodia and steal from khmer people! they may lose more than what they can chew this time if they dare steal from khmer again! god bless cambodia.
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