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VnnNews – A close relationship exists between the rice price, export volume and inflation. If rice prices are overly high, farmers suffer instead of profiting Statistics show that when the rice export volume increases, the inflation rate decreases. In 1995, Vietnam exported 1.988 million tons and the inflation rate was 12.9 percent. In...

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VnnNews – Vinafood 2 won a bid to export 150,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines, which, analysts believe it will push up export rice prices. According to Saigon Tiep Thi, Vinafood 2 won the rice exporting contract at the relatively high price of $480 per tonne – much higher than previous deals.  Therefore, Agroinfo, the...

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VnnNews – A specialty noodle dish in Hoi An can be made only with water from a thousand-year-old local well.  Hoi An on the central coast combines the old and the new in a way that draws tourists from far and wide. Not so famous are the town’s homegrown culinary delights, above all cao lau.The people of Hoi An have been eating...

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 VnnNews – Eco-friendly and economically beneficial farming methods in the Mekong Delta is leading the way to more sustainable rural development.The sun is blazing down but Vo Thi Nhieu and her husband are absorbed in consolidating the levees to prepare their newly harvested rice field for the upcoming shrimp crop.The work is harder...

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VnnNews – It’s being asked why Vietnam Food Association allowed state-owned Vinafood 2 to sell rice for less than the export floor price. [Tien Phong, a Hanoi newspaper, has been investigating the tight relationship between the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) and two large state corporations, Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2.] The...

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