HANOI, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will soon contact Chinese authorities, asking them to send an expert delegation to Vietnam to assess more businesses which could be eligible for exporting rice to China, according to Tran Thanh Nam, MARD deputy minister on Thursday.
Nam made the remarks after China decided to authorize 22 Vietnamese businesses to export rice into the country, reported local Vietnam News online newspaper on Thursday.
Specifically, any businesses not listed by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine were banned from exporting to the Chinese market from January 1, 2017.
According to MARD, China topped the list of Vietnam's rice export markets with 29 percent of market share in the first month of 2017.
