Rice exporters would need certificates from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) in order to be eligible to export the commodity as of October 1 this year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (Vietfood).
Currently, any business can export rice without having to adhere to industry regulations.
Vietfood chairman Truong Thanh Phong said the association had asked rice exporters, who met MoIT’s storage and husking requirements regulated in Decree ND109/2010/ND-CP issued in November last year, to register early with MoIT to meet the deadline.
Under Decree ND109/2010/ND-CP, rice exporters are required to have a storage capacity of at least 5,000 tonnes and husking facilities with an output of at least 10 tonnes per hour.
Storage and husking facilities also have to be located in cities and provinces that are home to the country’s rice export granaries or have international ports to serve rice exports.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the country exported 3.5 million tonnes of rice worth US$1.7 billion in the first five months of the year, a decrease of 18.6 per cent and 13.3 per cent in terms of volume and value against the same period last year.
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