Vietnam Sets Rice Record
10 April 2006 In 2005, Vietnamese growers produced a record crop of 34,400 thousand metric tons (MT) of rice despite water shortages, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA-FAS).
The biggest gain was in the Winter–Spring crop, where the planting area was down but production was higher thanks to a much higher yield. For the Summer–Autumn crop, grown mainly in the southern part of Vietnam, increases in planted area in exporting regions were cancelled by drought in other areas to leave production only slightly higher compared to last year. Lua Mua, the last crop of the year, has been shrinking year after year in both the Mekong River Delta and Red River Delta due to overly intense cultivation in the past and low returns compared to other uses of the land.
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