Preliminary statistics from the General Department of Customs show that in just the first 9 months of this year, our country exported 1.03 million tons of rice to the Indonesian market, earning 625 million USD. Compared to the same period last year, rice exports to the "land of thousands of islands" increased by 16.9% in volume and a sharp increase of 35% in value.

Accordingly, Indonesia continues to maintain its position as the second largest customer of Vietnamese rice.

Notably, Indonesia's rice production is the 4th largest in the world . In Southeast Asia, the country's rice output is the 2nd largest, just behind Thailand. However, this "island country" also ranks 3rd in the world in rice consumption, so every year it still has to import a huge amount to serve domestic consumption.

This year, Indonesia plans to import 3.6 million tons of rice. Currently, Vietnam is the largest rice supplier to this country.

In addition to imports, Indonesia and three other Southeast Asian countries have recently cooperated with Vietnam to increase their capacity to grow low-emission rice. This is because the country has a very large rice growing area, with straw production ranging from 75-90 million tons/year. However, farmers still regularly burn straw to clear their fields in preparation for the next crop. This not only causes waste but also emits a huge amount of CO2.

In recent years, the Indonesian government has issued laws on sustainable agricultural land protection. In it, it stipulates that farmers are not allowed to burn straw. Instead, farmers will have to process and decompose this by-product to return to the fields, use it as animal feed or industrial materials and energy.

Surpassing a series of competitors, Vietnam's "pearl" has the most expensive price in the world . The rice prices of a series of competitors such as Thailand, Pakistan, India... have plummeted, while Vietnam's "pearl" is stable and is the most expensive in the world.