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High-tech rice initiative

03/09/2025

01:56

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has stressed that Vietnam must shift to exporting high-quality, organic, and traceable rice to build a national brand in the long term. Enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in Tây Ninh province are now focusing on the one-million-hectare sustainable rice project linked to green growth in the Mekong Delta.

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