Festival Lúa Gạo Việt Nam 2009 - “Vietnam’s wet rice” workshop

“The unseasonable flood in the Central region occurred when the farmers were steeping rice variety and sowing rice for spring winter crop caused a great damage in agricultural production. At the present farmers does not only “lack” rice varieties but also solve the “problem” of changing long-time variety into...

Cross-rice - 1 of 3 main co-reports in the Workshop of “Viet Nam Rice”

The cross-rice has existed for near 20 years in Viet Nam with the dominant advantages shown and the yield is higher than the purebred rice from 15% to 20%. However, in the Mekong Delta where is considered as the national granary with holding about 50% national export rice output,...

The rice in the Mekong Delta with the national food security.

Through analysing the real situation and some solutions proposed for maintaining the rice farming soil stable and lasting, it is required for the reasonable investment in rice husbandry in the Mekong Delta in order to help the farmers heartened and feel secure in farming rice, which results in the...

Workshop on the Vietnamese rice – Results from discussions

According to Hau Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development– the body responsible for the organization of workshop “The Vietnamese Rice”- up to October 22nd, 2009 about 70% of preparation for the workshop has been done. The workshop is expected to be taken place on December 02nd, 2009 under...

Viet Nam rice production with achievements & challenges

BUI CHI BUU, NGUYEN THI LANG

The South Vietnam Agricultural Engineering Science Institute
The Mekong Delta Rice Institute

Wet rice civilization – The specific characteristic of Vietnam agriculture

The development process of Vietnam’s rice; the human civilization of cultivating wet rice and the future for developing Vietnam’s wet rice are all main contents of “Vietnam’s wet rice” workshop.