date:Sep 10, 2013
Accordingly, the government of Thailand reduced the price of the 100B rice, which is equivalent to Vietnam's 5-percent-broken rice, from 430 U.S. dollars per ton to 380 dollars per ton.
As a result, prices of the Vietnamese paddy in the southern Mekong delta dropped, from 5 million VND (230 U.S. dollars) per ton on the average in late August to 4.5 million VND (210 U.S. dollars) per ton as of early September.
Currently, Vietnam is exporting 5-percent-broken rice to China for about 395 U.S. dol