AreaViet Nam

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date10/08/2021

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentCredit, marketing assistance

DescriptionInstructed commercial banks in the Mekong Delta to expand credit limits and ensure the capital needs of producers, processors and traders to purchase, store and process paddy and rice, in an effort to ease marketing disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures.