Agriculture minister: Govt to export 1 - 1.5 million ton rice

[bluesky]

What are you talking about? BD will put its rice on international market and anyone who wants can buy it. There are many countries who produce rice for export like thailand. BD is one of the largest producers of rice but due to internal demand we do not export a lot. There is a ready made BD diaspora who will buy BD rice accross mideast, europe and US at a premium. Are you seriously suggesting BD should not sell because it might make other nations in SA unhappy!!!

So, do you want to export rice to Vietnam, Cambodia, India, SL, Iran, Iraq, Egypt or Pakistan? Just tell me the names. I hope, you are not proposing the United States of America to buy our rice.

This is why I proposed to sell it to the UN which will supply it to Rohingya or Yemen. Can you tell me how I am wrong?

Yes mechanization is the key to increase yields and farmers incomes. There are still manual labor but in large parts of Vietnam rice planting and harvesting are fully mechanized. We need less people, our rice yields are twice of Thailand.

By looking at the paddy field it looks like a Japanese field with not so long paddy trees. Japanese rice is sticky and delicious. How about Vietnamese rice is it sticky?

Japan, Korea rely on food imports. Their food self sufficiency is 40 and 47 percentage.

You are right. But, the yield of rice is highest in Japan and the production of rice as a staple food is sufficient. However, in Japan, there is a foreigners' market for imported rice. So, some companies import Australian or California rice for their consumption. These varieties are sold much cheaper than the Japanese rice which may be more than $3.00 per kg. Whatever may be the price the Japanese would buy their homegrown rice because it tastes better.

So, what is the food deficiency you have mentioned? There are a hundred other items needed for human consumption in a rich country like Japan. For example, the US and Australian beef, Brazilian chicken items, Australian mutton items, Italian canned tomatoes, Thai Jasmin rice, Pakistani/Indian Basmati, mangoes from Latin America/Thai/India, grapes from Argentina/Chile, etc.

There must be a thousand other items that cannot be produced in Japan and so it imports. So, all together Japanese self-sufficiency in food is approximately 50%. You have to calculate this in terms of the value of each item. For example, 1 kg of beef is certainly a few times more expensive than a kg of rice, isn't it?

 

[mb444]

So, do you want to export rice to Vietnam, Cambodia, India, SL, Iran, Iraq, Egypt or Pakistan? Just tell me the names. I hope, you are not proposing the United States of America to buy our rice.

This is why I proposed to sell it to the UN which will supply it to Rohingya or Yemen. Can you tell me how I am wrong?


By looking at the paddy field it looks like a Japanese field with not so long paddy trees. Japanese rice is sticky and delicious. How about Vietnamese rice is it sticky?


You are right. But, the yield of rice is highest in Japan and the production of rice as a staple food is sufficient. However, in Japan, there is a foreigners' market for imported rice. So, some companies import Australian or California rice for their consumption. These varieties are sold much cheaper than the Japanese rice which may be more than $3.00 per kg. Whatever may be the price the Japanese would buy their homegrown rice because it tastes better.

So, what is the food deficiency you have mentioned? There are a hundred other items needed for human consumption in a rich country like Japan. For example, the US and Australian beef, Brazilian chicken items, Australian mutton items, Italian canned tomatoes, Thai Jasmin rice, Pakistani/Indian Basmati, mangoes from Latin America/Thai/India, grapes from Argentina/Chile, etc.

There must be a thousand other items that cannot be produced in Japan and so it imports. So, all together Japanese self-sufficiency in food is approximately 50%. You have to calculate this in terms of the value of each item. For example, 1 kg of beef is certainly a few times more expensive than a kg of rice, isn't it?

You put up your rice in the international commodity market. You do not dictate who your customer is. Supply and demand dictates prices and the world is your customer.

There are BD aromatic rices for sale in UK. It is not that big a deal for BD par-boiled to be on sale. It is BD who had banned rice export to ensure self sufficiency. There will be no shortage of buyer from one of the biggest rice producers in the world.

There is no reason why US would not buy rice from us if the price is right. Selling it to UN for Yemen is a bizzare suggestion. It would be better and quicker to simply sell it in the international market.

 

[Viet]

By looking at the paddy field it looks like a Japanese field with not so long paddy trees. Japanese rice is sticky and delicious. How about Vietnamese rice is it sticky?


You are right. But, the yield of rice is highest in Japan and the production of rice as a staple food is sufficient. However, in Japan, there is a foreigners' market for imported rice. So, some companies import Australian or California rice for their consumption. These varieties are sold much cheaper than the Japanese rice which may be more than $3.00 per kg. Whatever may be the price the Japanese would buy their homegrown rice because it tastes better.

So, what is the food deficiency you have mentioned? There are a hundred other items needed for human consumption in a rich country like Japan. For example, the US and Australian beef, Brazilian chicken items, Australian mutton items, Italian canned tomatoes, Thai Jasmin rice, Pakistani/Indian Basmati, mangoes from Latin America/Thai/India, grapes from Argentina/Chile, etc.

There must be a thousand other items that cannot be produced in Japan and so it imports. So, all together Japanese self-sufficiency in food is approximately 50%. You have to calculate this in terms of the value of each item. For example, 1 kg of beef is certainly a few times more expensive than a kg of rice, isn't it?

Not sure maybe Japanese rice for Japanese market. Vietnam has recently shifted to planting of high quality rice.