Re: Rice export

[Phan Thanh Lam <phtl@freenet.tlh.fl.us>]

Anh Tuan, anh AiViet and other VNSA members,

Wouldn't it be nice if Vietnamese living overseas got to eat rice from VN 
instead of Thailand and that Vietnamese farmers can sell their rice at 
higher price?

Assume that I can take care of getting Vietnam 
rice to the proper wholesalers here in the U.S. and have an adequate 
marketing and distribution system to get the consumers to buy rice from 
VN with competitive price,  could you all give me some advices, 
ideas, suggestions on the best way to approach the Vietnamese side.  WHat 
are some of the problems that must be overcome? WHat sort of investments 
would be required to upgrade old equipment?

I'd like to assess this potential and would appreciate any ideas you may 
have, realistic or not, practical or not.

Thanks.

Lam  

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:

> a lower price than the governmental sector. However, the 
> private sector has problem in exporting rice. When people 
> try to sell their rice to governmental agencies, they have 
> to go through a very cumbersome procedure (sound familiar?) 

> rice export, I think we have a long way to go to compete 
> head-to-head with neighbour country like Thailand. Our 
> problem is that our rice is not that of high quality. So 
...
> outdated. Consequently, our processed rice is not clean 
> enough, immature and low quality. To compete with Thai in 
> this market, we must improve our quality and pricing 
> system.