Restructuring of Vietnam’s rice industry till 2025: Deep exploitation of rice after harvest

A number of solutions to restructure the rice industry after harvesting, preserving and processing rice are proposed in the scheme for restructuring of Vietnam’s rice industry by 2025 and 2030, issued together with Vietnam's Decision 555/QD-BNN-TT includes:

• Increase use of 2-stage dryers (fluidized bed dryer for stage 1 and columnar dryer for stage 2) to improve milling recovery and rice quality;

• Review rice and rice plant storage capacity of the whole country, narrow the gap between rice storage capacity and rice plant storage capacity in key production regions by building and upgrading rice plant storage with synchronized drying and cleaning systems and automated operations to improve storage quality;

• Apply the one-step hulling process to produce rice directly from dried rice plants with 14% humidity instead of the "backward” process where brown rice is produced from highly humid whole grain rice and then transported and stored in another location for hulling, polishing and drying, which results in high loss and poor quality. 

• Deep processing of mash and rice can create many high-value food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products such as high-class cooking oil, mask wax, brown rice milk, products from rice flour, oryzanol essence, etc. Straw can be used to produce organic fertilizers, grow fungi, make paper or produce animal feeds. Hulls can be recycled into wood or used to produce biogas (rice hull gasification), clean construction materials, activated carbon, etc.

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More details can be found in Vietnam's Decision 555/QD-BNN-TT 2021, effective from January 26, 2021.

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