So far, the rice has had a strong attachment to Vietnamese people and home village and also become the name of a civilization – wet rice civilization.

In Winter-Spring crop (2008-2009), the Mekong Delta Rice Institute carried out to till 150 varieties of rice for testing. After the crop, over 500 peasants and 50 staffs of the local agricultural variety centre commented and selected 9 most typical rice varieties including OM 6073 (ranked the first) (making...