Directive 17/1998/CT-TTg

DIRECTIVE No.17/1998/CT-TTg of April 2, 1998 on the rice export management and ensuring food security in 1998.

The Prime Minister urges the concerned ministries and branches, and the People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government to expeditiously perform the following tasks: re-estimating the output and the volume of commercial rice of the 1997-1998 winter-spring rice crop; estimating the commercial rice output of the subsequent crops, so as to well organize the execution of the 1998 rice export plan; directing the summer-autumn crop production activities; revising the rice export contracts, closely controlling the commercial terms and rice export prices. In the immediate future, as from April 1st, 1998, there shall not be any additional allocation of rice export quotas to any exporters.- (Summary)