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FIGURE 8.2
Paddy rice marketing channel
Wholesaler
Retailer
Consumer
Assemble
Miller
Farmer
SOEs without
export quota
SOEs with
export quota
Export
Rice-consuming channel
Paddy-consuming channel
NOTE
: SOE, state-owned enterprise.
However, after the issuance of Prime Minister Decision 80/2002-Q- -TTg
in 2002, the situation has changed to some extent. In response to the decision,
VINAFOODs and provincial seed and seedling companies have signed con-
tracts with households and cooperatives to cultivate hundreds of hectares of
land with high-quality rice in the Red River Delta. The most noticeable was Ha
Nam Food Company, which has contracted to buy 40,000 tons of rice. Further-
more, four SOEs in An Giang Province have signed a contract with 178 pro-
TABLE 8.3
Profile of rice marketing in the Mekong River Delta (percent)
Farmers/
Stakeholders
households
Retailers
Wholesalers
Assemblers
Millers
Food SOEs
Total
Retailers
89.5
2.86
7.64
0
0
0
100
Wholesalers
2.02
14.04
27.83
0
14.8
40.51
100
Assemblers
2.1
24.81
46.32
0
0.84
25.94
100
Millers
0.39
2.98
10.91
3.77
0
81.98
100
Food SOEs
0
0.01
1.85
0
0
98.14
100
SOURCE
: Calculations based on Government of Vietnam (1999).
NOTE
: SOE, state-owned enterprise.
