After suffering from pest academic for most part of the year last season, farmers in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam are harvesting a bumper winter-spring rice crop this year with an average output of 0.5 MT per hectare higher than last year.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong attributed the successful rice crop harvest before Tet to the agricultural sector’s and farmers’ joint efforts to stamp out the planthopper pest epidemic, saving tens of thousands of hectares of rice.
The Trade Ministry plans to export 4 million MT of rice in 2007. If the coming crops are good, it is expected to increase rice exports to 4.5 million MT.
Vietnam is the second largest rice exporting nation of the world.
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