The direction is highlighted in a draft on the strategy for developing Vietnam’s rice export market in the period 2016-2020 with a vision to 2030, which has been released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). 

According to the draft, from 2016, the export rice production will focus on long-grain white rice and high-quality rice with 5 to 10% of broken grains and reduce rice with more than 15% of broken grains. By 2020, the low-quality white rice export proportion in the total volume of export rice will be reduced to 15%.