Mekong Delta harvests bumper rice crop
VGP – Farmers in the Mekong Delta were estimated to harvest 23 million tons of rice this year, which will be 1.5 million tons higher than the 2010 crop.
Moreover, the local authorities of the Mekong Delta-Việt Nam’s biggest rice bowl have focused on upgrading a network of inner irrigation systems in the region among other technical measures.
They have also paid attentiont o expanding the high-quality rice production area, particularly for fragrant protein-rich and global GAP rice.