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Rice milling in Vietnam

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    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2021 August
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    Cereal processes > Rice milling

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    Scope & contentSatake helps to sort the panicle from the paddy

    By Yuta Kawanaka, Area Manager, Asia Business Division, Satake Corporation, Japan.

    The export quantity of Vietnamese rice in 2020 surpassed Thailand, with it now ranked as the second largest exporter in the world behind India.

    The Mekong River is one of the longest transboundary water courses in the world - second only to the River Nile in Egypt. Spanning the space between the boarders of Myanmar and Laos, this grand water way begins its 4350km journey in the Tibetan Plateau.

    Vinaseed is one of the major companies in the country who enjoys the benefit from the Mekong River. It is a research-oriented company who is dedicated to improve the Vietnamese agriculture.

    In 2020, it established a state-of-the-art rice mill in the very center of the Vietnamese breadbasket - or rice bowl, should I say. This new rice processing facility of Vinaseed is located in Dong Thap province, in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

    Vinaseed, Vietnam National Seed Group Joint Stock Company, is a part of Pan Group and is the largest company in the Vietnam seed industry, holding 20 percent of the domestic market share. It also produces and distributes rice for both domestic consumption and exports.

    Vinaseed's latest rice processing facility is capable of processing 14 tons of paddy per hour, for which Satake supplied most of the core processing components such as abrasive milling machine VTA, rice polisher KB and optical sorter…. Read more.

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