AsemconnectVietnam - As of July 15, the country cultivated 1,056.3 thousand hectares of winter rice, equaling 105.9% over the same period last year, of which provinces in the North sowed 897.2 thousand hectares, equaling 105.5 %. I

In the Red River Delta, 423.6 thousand hectares were cultivated, equaling 103.7%; Southern provinces cultivated 159.1 thousand ha, equaling 108.6%. By mid-July, the country cultivated 2,096.2 thousand hectares of summer-autumn rice, equaling 100.1% over the same period last year, of which 173.3 thousand ha were in the northern provinces, equaling 104%; Southern provinces reached 1,923 thousand ha, equaling 99.8%.