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Cambodian and Thai rice is sold in large quantities in Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta. Despite producing most of Vietnam’s rice, Mekong residents are showing an increasing partiality for foreign grains. (Photo: SGGP)Saigon Giai Phong (SGGP)
While the “Buy Vietnamese” campaign has boosted production and consumption of many local products, a paradox exists in the Mekong Delta where foreign rice floods the market and residents prefer it to domestic varieties, an SGGP inquiry has found.
At a border market in the province of An Giang, one of the leading granaries in the region, it is hard to find grown-in-Vietnam rice. Most stalls sell Cambodian and Thai brands instead.
Asked why she does not sell domestic rice, Tran Hong Diem, a trader at Tinh Bien market pointed to bags of Cambodian rice explaining: “This rice is sweet-smelling and delicious, so people here prefer it.”
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