date:Mar 18, 2014
week, but a spokesman at the National Food Authority, the Philippines' state grains procurement agency, said it was still waiting for government approval and has yet to finalise any dates. Manila, the biggest buyer of Vietnamese rice so far this year, is expected to take delivery of the grain between April and June, a trader in Vietnam said, before the Philippines' lean growing season from July to September. The winter-spring crop in southern Vietnam, incorporating the Mekong Delta food basket,