Deputy Prime Minister: Exports of glutinous rice, increases the export quota by 100,000 tons

At the afternoon meeting on April 20, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung requested an advance of 100,000 tons of rice from the export quota in May 2020 to remove difficulties for enterprises that currently have rice at the port but have not yet had customs declaration.

There are still many inadequacies

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said that the rice production plan in 2020 is expected to reach 43.5 million tons of paddy. In particular, the end of the Winter-Spring crop is estimated to reach 20.2 million tons of paddy (expected to end harvesting in June 30).

“Domestic consumption demand is 29.96 million tons, of which, domestic reserves are about 3.8 million tons of paddy. It is expected that the amount of rice exported in 2020 after subtracting consumer demand and domestic reserves will be from 6.5 to 6.7 million tons. In the winter-spring crop, the rice export is expected to be about 3 million tons, ”said Mr. Le Quoc Doanh

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung directed the afternoon rice export meeting on April 20.

On the side of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh said that immediately after the Prime Minister's Direction, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Decision No. 1106 / QD-TTg dated April 10, 2020. announced the rice export quota in April 2020 to apply an export quota for rice in April of 400,000 tons.

However, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has received a lot of comments from rice exporting enterprises, reflecting that the registration of declarations appears some inadequacies when not being notified of the time to start receiving declarations or not approaching. systematic. Particularly, there are cases where registration is possible but then the declaration is lost on the system ...

The agency also proposed the Government to allow the export of sticky rice, including sticky rice, sticky rice and sticky rice on demand and not included in the volume of quotas allowed to be exported in April 2020 and beyond.

Deputy Minister of Finance Vu Thi Mai said that during the period from 0h -6h15 on 12/4, 38 enterprises had registered 519 export declarations with the number of rice registered export declarations was 399,989 tons.

For shipments of rice currently in port not yet exported, the Ministry of Finance requests the Government to allow the export of shipments of rice that have been brought into the port before March 24, 2020 but have not registered the customs declaration yet. April 2020 was confirmed by businesses, port business units, customs authorities (143,453 tons). The amount of rice exports will be deducted from the quota in May 2020. 

Regarding the food reserve, the State Reserve has signed a contract of 7,700 tons, the remaining 170,300 tons of contractors won the bid but refused to sign the contract. The General Department of Reserves has a plan to select contractors to re-bid 182,300 tons of rice in the form of open bidding, the time to open the bidding is on 12/5/2020, the expected deadline for warehouse before 30 / 6/2020.

Export but must ensure food security

Overview of the meeting.

Concluding at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said that ensuring food security is a strategic and important issue related to people's life, security and national defense. Currently, the situation of COVID-19 disease and weather, climate change are taking place very complicatedly and unpredictably; forecasting a significant impact on agricultural production and domestic rice supply; A number of countries and territories have frozen and strengthened food reserves ...

Therefore, the export of rice in the current context needs to be considered carefully and cautiously; firstly, it must ensure national food security, at the same time minimize the disruption of the rice production chain, protect the legitimate and legitimate interests of farmers and relevant business organizations.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung also said that the process of managing rice exports has had many problems that need to be overcome. This is the main reason that public opinion, the press and the business community reflect harshly. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the main responsibility lies with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Finance and related agencies.

“The coordination in the process of implementing the Prime Minister's direction between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Trade is not tight and harmonious. This greatly affects the efforts of the Government and the Prime Minister in preventing and fighting against epidemics while focusing on developing production, ensuring food security and ensuring people's life. Besides, the purchase of rice stocks failed to reach the target and proceeded very slowly. I request the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance to seriously draw experience from the coordination of the tasks assigned by the Government ”- Deputy Prime Minister severely criticized.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung asked the concerned ministries and branches to ensure that they do not affect food security, absolutely not to let rice shortage happen to people. At the same time, ensuring the two goals of developing production, promoting exports, harmonizing interests and interests of the State, enterprises and people.

“First of all, request ministries and branches to immediately overcome the current shortcomings. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in inspecting the reality of enterprises having rice in stock at the port but have not yet opened their declarations, detecting enterprises who have made a false declaration or have been granted quotas but do not have rice yet to regulate or not. to damage businesses, ”the Deputy Prime Minister requested.

The Deputy Prime Minister requested an advance of 100,000 tons of rice from the export quota in May 2020 to remove difficulties for existing rice enterprises in the port but could not open customs declarations.

In the immediate future, the export of sticky rice is still normal. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to review and assess the overall supply and demand of the domestic market for export management to ensure that there is no shortage.

In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister requested permission to export without quotas for production orders at the request of importers in foreign countries (supplied by foreign partners with seeds, technologies and supplies. ...).

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for purchasing sufficient national reserves. In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister requested to pay attention to the mechanisms, procedures, prices, commitments and constraints between the parties to ensure the purchase of sufficient reserves, avoiding the situation that enterprises do not sell to the state due to lower prices. market.

The Ministry of Finance shall review the process and procedures in opening customs declarations, ensure publicity and transparency, so as not to cause negative and profiteering policies.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to administer rice export quotas to ensure publicity, transparency and harmony of interests of the State, enterprises and people; ensure implementation of international commitments.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development continues to promote agricultural production, ensuring to fully meet domestic food demand and partly for export. Assess and forecast food production and domestic demand in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Also in the afternoon, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested the Government Inspectorate to conduct a sudden inspection of the observance of the law provisions on the State management of rice export in recent years. During the inspection process, the rice export is normal.

Source: http://m.danviet.vn/tin-nong-nghiep/pho-thu-tuong-cho-xuat-gao-nep-them-han-ngach-thang-4-100000-tan-1080928.html