Vietnam to resume rice exports

Rice exports with avolume of 400,000 tonnes wll resume in April. - Vietnam News

HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed with a plan to resume the country's rice export after the government announced an export ban in March to ensure national food security amid the Covid-19 epidemic, Vietnam News Agency reported Saturday (April 11).

The country will export around 400,000 tonnes of rice in April, the news agency reported, noting that the Ministry of Industry and Trade and other relevant ministries and agencies will consider the epidemic situation and report to the prime minister on the rice export plan for May.