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The Rice Sector in Vietnam
and Policy Development
Table of Contents
• Overview of the Rice Sector
• Government’s Objectives
• History
• Policy Measures 1-9
• Agricultural Restructuring Program
• Adding value 1-6
• 14 Focus points for Policy development
• Reflections
Overview of the Rice Sector
1
• 60% rural households growing rice/paddy
2
• Paddy land accounts for 40% of agricultural production area
3
• Rice contributes 30% of production value of cropping sector
4
• Ensure national food security
5
• Contribute considerably to export earnings
Today’s Government Objectives for the rice sector
• Ensure national food security and improve
incomes and livelihood of farmers
• Develop the production towards modernization
and sustainability
• Improve productivity and quality and increase
competitiveness
• Effective use resources of land, water, labor and
capital
History: Yield as the driver of output
• Stagnation during 1976-1980
• High growth, mostly contributed by yield growth along with the partial reform in 1981
• Steady growth during 1986-2000 since the economic reform
• Lower growth from 2005 with less cultivated area
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
Output(1000tons)
Output (1000 tons)
Yield (quintal/ha)
Yield(quintal/ha)
Decollectivization,
Domestic market
liberalization
Investment for
irrigation system
Technology
application
History: Market-oriented reforms as a driver of change
From hunger…
• Top-down cooperatives in 1975 followed by farmer’s
resistance in the south. Rice production stagnated and
hyperinflation.
• Imported rice reduction in assistance by the Soviet Union and
the losses of SOEs further reduced farmer incentives
… To surplus of rice as world 2nd player in rice exports ..
• Market liberalization : switched from the collective agricultural
production system to individual-oriented contract system in
1981 generating farmer’s creativity and initiative followed by
sharp increase of rice production with an average annual
growth rate of 5% during 1981-1986
Measure 1: Land Allocation to all farmers
• The Land Law in 1989 legalizing the private ownership of
farm assets and allocating the cooperative land to
individual farmers for long-term use
• Landless farmers account for only 2 percent
• farmers holders of land-use titles have five rights:
“exchange, transfer, inheritance, lease and mortgage”;
• Farmers were allowed to buy, own, and sell agricultural
inputs such as machines, buffaloes, and tools
• farmers no longer required to sell a large part of their
outputs to State at low price
Measure 2: Reduction of export tax and removal of
import tax for fertilizers
• Eliminated most direct subsidies and price controls,
set interest rates positive in real terms and devalued
the foreign exchange rate,
• The export tax was reduced 25% to 0% in 1998.
• Restrictions on fertilizer import removed in 2001
• Participation of the private sector in rice export since
1997
Measure 3: Government Investments in
irrigation and General services
• Around 8 billions US$ invested in irrigation
• Public extension service successful in
disseminating high-yielding varieties, and
plant protection techniques…
Measure 4: Direct Supports & Subsidies; but less and less!
 Exempt poor households and agricultural households in difficult
communes from agricultural land use tax
 Reduce 50% of agricultural land use tax for the rest of households
 Credits with subsidized interests to buy machines, materials for
services in supply chain (plough, harvesting…)
 Exemption from irrigation fees
 Investment in general services, in R&D, science technology and
agricultural extension
 Poorest have access to subsidized credits of Bank for Social Policies
 Free vocational training
 Production inputs given free or subsidized by pro-poor national and
international programs (less and less applicable)
Measure 5: From fragmented land to large rice fields (ARP)
Land consolidation for Reducing cost of farming
Measure 6: Increasing incomes for farmers (ARP),
through on-farm diversification
• Restructuring the subsector
• New value chains of
specialty rice, targeting
niche markets
• Diversification: More rice-
fields turned into flowers and
safe vegetable
• Models for test and
demonstration > lessons
learned and then
• Mass multiplication
Mechanism
Pilot
models and
replication
Rice
value
chain
develop-
ment
Paddy land
conversion
Measure 7: Crop diversification
Low profit rates in rice production
compared to other crops
Multi-purposes of the paddy land
conversion
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
Profit (000 VND/ha)
Diversify
farmers’
incomes
Create
jobs for
rural
areas
Reduce
imported
inputs
such as
corn, soy
been and
fertilizers
Ensure food
security and
protect
nature
Measure 8: Promoting on farm diversification
• After years of
development, Sa Dec
village in Mekong delta
has now 212 hectare of
flowers.
• The village’s flowers are
transported by boats to
other provinces in
Mekong River Delta and
Ho Chi Minh City, and
even exported to Laos,
Cambodia and China.
On- farm diversification
Measure 9: On farm Diversification
with corn with soy-beans,
which needs less water
and enriches soil
Measure 9 (& 6): Higher incomes for farmers
Support general services
and private investment
• State budget provided to
infrastructure, improving quality of
agricultural services, research &
Development, education to
improve productivity,
competitiveness and the quality of
services along the chain
• Enabling environment for domestic
and foreign private companies to
invest, aiming at long-term growth
• Market research, branding …
• Help networking and linking with
international partners
Rice value chain development
Higher
added value
Diversify
rice
products
Intensify
science &
technology
application
Institutional
reform
ARP-Policy: Development of Supply & Value Chains
• Studying markets; sale contracts
signed with agreed quality standards
and trademark, before production
• Building partnerships: Former
buyers become partners and
investors
• Having different varieties of coarse
rice or basmati or jasmine or local
varieties for different customers?
• Strict technical supervision
• Close collaboration between value
chain actors, from farmers to end-
consumers
• Traceability
• Good services for inputs supply and
services
• Farmers are organized in
production groups, with leader.
• Lead-firm “Loc Troi” provide
good down stream services, after
farm-gate: drying, storage,
transportation, processing,
marketing
• Government gives subsidized
credits to farmers/contractors to
buy machinery
• Results: Costs reduction and
free labor for higher income
activities (horticulture, rural non-
farm jobs…)
• Sharing information about market
and quality standards
Add value 1: Recycling by-products
• Recycling by-products:
• Processing of by-
products to add values
• No pollution, no post-
harvest losses through
by-products
• Intensification with new
varieties seed, fertilizer,
pesticide, herbicide =
value addition
Example: Making briquettes out of husks
and straw for drying and other purposes
Add value 2: Recycling by-products
Using rice straw to cultivate
mushrooms Making compost from rice straw
Examples, Add value 3: Certified Production of Rice
Rice & Duck, Rice & Fish and Rice & flowers farming applied in Mekong
River Delta. Flowers planted to attract friendly insects eating harmful
pests. Duck and fish do the same
Example, Add value 4: Certified Production of “Safe” Rice
• The floating rice system uses no
pesticides and only a small
amount of fertilizer.
• This is in contrast to the high-
yielding varieties of rice that
grow three to four crops per year
in Mekong and that are
agrochemical intensive.
• This farmer collecting wild
freshwater fish for his protein
sources.
• Although the yield of floating rice
is low, the net return is relatively
higher than that of summer-
autumn high-yield variety rice
crops grown by other farmers.
Examples, Add value 5: Differentiation of Rice Products
Example, Add value 6: The quantity of
fragrant jasmine rice increases
Export volume by rice varieties (ton)
-
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
2-10%broken
rice
15-25%
broken rice
25-50%
broken rice
Jasmine rice Brown rice Sticky rice Broken rice Others
2010
2011
2012
2013
Focus for Policy development
Orientation Recommendation
1. Investing in people
2. Enabling
environment for the
private sector to
invest in the rice
sector
3. Privatization of
SOEs
4. Enhancing
linkages cooperation
and coordination
- Training and retraining of rice researchers,
policy researchers and extension staff…
- Adopting a more results-oriented culture in
innovation activities
- Policies related to incentives (tax, access to
land, credits …)
- The State budget has more money to support
farmers and the private sector
- Between national research centers, extension
and schools
- Network with international research centers and
private sector
- Among ministries (Agricultural, Health,
Infrastructure…)
- Participation of communities in design,
implementation, maintenance and monitoring
- GAP certification, organic rice production and
other crop production standards in order to 24
Focus for Policy development
Orientation Recommendation
4. Equitable
access and control
over land & inputs
5. Poverty
reduction, gender
equality
6. More
participation in
management of
Drainage and
Irrigation
- Process of ‘land conversions’ more transparent and fairer
- Protecting the farmer’s rights to land, more stable property
rights
- Land-use planning system
- Small-scale farmers have equal rights, compared to large
ones for access to credit, technology and market
information.
- Contributions by water users for operation, maintenance
- Participation of communities in design, implementation,
maintenance and monitoring
- GAP certification, organic rice production and other crop
production standards in order to access specific export
niche markets
7. Food safety
norms,
certification and
regulations
- Policies facilitating investment in public R&D and
technology transfer schemes, subsidies for private R&D,
intellectual property rights
25
Focus for Policy development
Orientation Recommendation
8. R&D
9. Methodology of
farming extension
services
- Develop institutional and policy reforms to enhance farmers’
access to improved public agricultural and natural resources
management services.
- More participation in farming extension from communities,
cooperatives, enterprises, private persons
10. More on-farm
and off-farm
diversification
- More flexibility from Government in approving conversion of
rice land to soy- bean, corn and cash crops
- Same level of support from Government to corn or soy-
bean production as to rice production
11. Increase the
production
efficiency and
competitiveness of
rice value chains
- One process system with land consolidation
- More long term credits for farmers and cooperatives
- Improve the efficiency of farming extension and supervise
process of sustainable production
- More incentives from Government for private investment in
rice
26
Focus for Policy development
Orientation Recommendation
12. Market
development,
more lucrative
markets
- Enhance the competitiveness of the private sector
- Develop new markets (South America, Africa, Middle
East)
- More market integration and linkages (trade
agreements, product exchanges)
13. Creating more
added value
- Provide private companies with more incentives and
favorable conditions investing in agriculture
• Having direct linkages with farmers producing
high quality rice (Japonica, Jasmine, Parboiled)
• Investing modern technologies of processing rice
and recycling by-products
• Undertaking branding activities
14. Market
stabilization
- Provide exporters having direct customers overseas
with more incentives and favorable conditions
- Provide vulnerable groups with rice, more food-for-
work programs
27
Reflections policy tools for
restructuring the rice sector
• The government of Vietnam reducing its role in productive activities where the
private sector is taking the lead as a driver of change
• The Government now focus on creating an enabling environment including
policies facilitating farmers and private doing business for sustainable long-term
growth. Institutional and policy reforms are needed to enhance farmers’ access
to improved public services.
• There are no perfect policies, but often trade-off in everything; thus policy
makers often ask themselves if their current policy set addresses as much as
possible stated objectives.
• To minimize mistakes and obtain desired objectives, make sure if new policies are
based on sound research and improve transparency in the policy making process,
including information on objectives, measures and policy tools
• Policy implementation should be accompanies by a sound monitoring and
evaluation system.
• usiness environment for agriculture: focus on general services Australia, Chile, New Zealand
30
Thank you!
Prepared by Nguyen Luong Nhan, email : nhannl@yahoo.com.vn
March 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam
References
• Nguyen Trung Kien (2015) Rice Policy in Vietnam, IPSARD
• Dang Kim Son (2015) Restructuring rural economy, IPSARD
• Nguyen Luong Nhan (2015) Rice Value Chain Analysis and Upgrading
Strategy for high quality rice in Thua Thien Hue, IRC
• Nguyen Luong Nhan (2015), How to add value to rice, IRC
• SNV (2006) Rice Value Chain in Dien Bien Province, report
• Vo Thi Thanh Loc and Nguyen Phu Son (2011) Rice Value Chain Analysis in
the Mekong River Delta, Can Tho University

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The Rice Sector in Vietnam and Policy Development-Paramaribo

  • 1. The Rice Sector in Vietnam and Policy Development
  • 2. Table of Contents • Overview of the Rice Sector • Government’s Objectives • History • Policy Measures 1-9 • Agricultural Restructuring Program • Adding value 1-6 • 14 Focus points for Policy development • Reflections
  • 3. Overview of the Rice Sector 1 • 60% rural households growing rice/paddy 2 • Paddy land accounts for 40% of agricultural production area 3 • Rice contributes 30% of production value of cropping sector 4 • Ensure national food security 5 • Contribute considerably to export earnings
  • 4. Today’s Government Objectives for the rice sector • Ensure national food security and improve incomes and livelihood of farmers • Develop the production towards modernization and sustainability • Improve productivity and quality and increase competitiveness • Effective use resources of land, water, labor and capital
  • 5. History: Yield as the driver of output • Stagnation during 1976-1980 • High growth, mostly contributed by yield growth along with the partial reform in 1981 • Steady growth during 1986-2000 since the economic reform • Lower growth from 2005 with less cultivated area 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 45000 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 Output(1000tons) Output (1000 tons) Yield (quintal/ha) Yield(quintal/ha) Decollectivization, Domestic market liberalization Investment for irrigation system Technology application
  • 6. History: Market-oriented reforms as a driver of change From hunger… • Top-down cooperatives in 1975 followed by farmer’s resistance in the south. Rice production stagnated and hyperinflation. • Imported rice reduction in assistance by the Soviet Union and the losses of SOEs further reduced farmer incentives … To surplus of rice as world 2nd player in rice exports .. • Market liberalization : switched from the collective agricultural production system to individual-oriented contract system in 1981 generating farmer’s creativity and initiative followed by sharp increase of rice production with an average annual growth rate of 5% during 1981-1986
  • 7. Measure 1: Land Allocation to all farmers • The Land Law in 1989 legalizing the private ownership of farm assets and allocating the cooperative land to individual farmers for long-term use • Landless farmers account for only 2 percent • farmers holders of land-use titles have five rights: “exchange, transfer, inheritance, lease and mortgage”; • Farmers were allowed to buy, own, and sell agricultural inputs such as machines, buffaloes, and tools • farmers no longer required to sell a large part of their outputs to State at low price
  • 8. Measure 2: Reduction of export tax and removal of import tax for fertilizers • Eliminated most direct subsidies and price controls, set interest rates positive in real terms and devalued the foreign exchange rate, • The export tax was reduced 25% to 0% in 1998. • Restrictions on fertilizer import removed in 2001 • Participation of the private sector in rice export since 1997
  • 9. Measure 3: Government Investments in irrigation and General services • Around 8 billions US$ invested in irrigation • Public extension service successful in disseminating high-yielding varieties, and plant protection techniques…
  • 10. Measure 4: Direct Supports & Subsidies; but less and less!  Exempt poor households and agricultural households in difficult communes from agricultural land use tax  Reduce 50% of agricultural land use tax for the rest of households  Credits with subsidized interests to buy machines, materials for services in supply chain (plough, harvesting…)  Exemption from irrigation fees  Investment in general services, in R&D, science technology and agricultural extension  Poorest have access to subsidized credits of Bank for Social Policies  Free vocational training  Production inputs given free or subsidized by pro-poor national and international programs (less and less applicable)
  • 11. Measure 5: From fragmented land to large rice fields (ARP) Land consolidation for Reducing cost of farming
  • 12. Measure 6: Increasing incomes for farmers (ARP), through on-farm diversification • Restructuring the subsector • New value chains of specialty rice, targeting niche markets • Diversification: More rice- fields turned into flowers and safe vegetable • Models for test and demonstration > lessons learned and then • Mass multiplication Mechanism Pilot models and replication Rice value chain develop- ment Paddy land conversion
  • 13. Measure 7: Crop diversification Low profit rates in rice production compared to other crops Multi-purposes of the paddy land conversion 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 Profit (000 VND/ha) Diversify farmers’ incomes Create jobs for rural areas Reduce imported inputs such as corn, soy been and fertilizers Ensure food security and protect nature
  • 14. Measure 8: Promoting on farm diversification • After years of development, Sa Dec village in Mekong delta has now 212 hectare of flowers. • The village’s flowers are transported by boats to other provinces in Mekong River Delta and Ho Chi Minh City, and even exported to Laos, Cambodia and China. On- farm diversification
  • 15. Measure 9: On farm Diversification with corn with soy-beans, which needs less water and enriches soil
  • 16. Measure 9 (& 6): Higher incomes for farmers Support general services and private investment • State budget provided to infrastructure, improving quality of agricultural services, research & Development, education to improve productivity, competitiveness and the quality of services along the chain • Enabling environment for domestic and foreign private companies to invest, aiming at long-term growth • Market research, branding … • Help networking and linking with international partners Rice value chain development Higher added value Diversify rice products Intensify science & technology application Institutional reform
  • 17. ARP-Policy: Development of Supply & Value Chains • Studying markets; sale contracts signed with agreed quality standards and trademark, before production • Building partnerships: Former buyers become partners and investors • Having different varieties of coarse rice or basmati or jasmine or local varieties for different customers? • Strict technical supervision • Close collaboration between value chain actors, from farmers to end- consumers • Traceability • Good services for inputs supply and services • Farmers are organized in production groups, with leader. • Lead-firm “Loc Troi” provide good down stream services, after farm-gate: drying, storage, transportation, processing, marketing • Government gives subsidized credits to farmers/contractors to buy machinery • Results: Costs reduction and free labor for higher income activities (horticulture, rural non- farm jobs…) • Sharing information about market and quality standards
  • 18. Add value 1: Recycling by-products • Recycling by-products: • Processing of by- products to add values • No pollution, no post- harvest losses through by-products • Intensification with new varieties seed, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide = value addition Example: Making briquettes out of husks and straw for drying and other purposes
  • 19. Add value 2: Recycling by-products Using rice straw to cultivate mushrooms Making compost from rice straw
  • 20. Examples, Add value 3: Certified Production of Rice Rice & Duck, Rice & Fish and Rice & flowers farming applied in Mekong River Delta. Flowers planted to attract friendly insects eating harmful pests. Duck and fish do the same
  • 21. Example, Add value 4: Certified Production of “Safe” Rice • The floating rice system uses no pesticides and only a small amount of fertilizer. • This is in contrast to the high- yielding varieties of rice that grow three to four crops per year in Mekong and that are agrochemical intensive. • This farmer collecting wild freshwater fish for his protein sources. • Although the yield of floating rice is low, the net return is relatively higher than that of summer- autumn high-yield variety rice crops grown by other farmers.
  • 22. Examples, Add value 5: Differentiation of Rice Products
  • 23. Example, Add value 6: The quantity of fragrant jasmine rice increases Export volume by rice varieties (ton) - 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 4,000,000 2-10%broken rice 15-25% broken rice 25-50% broken rice Jasmine rice Brown rice Sticky rice Broken rice Others 2010 2011 2012 2013
  • 24. Focus for Policy development Orientation Recommendation 1. Investing in people 2. Enabling environment for the private sector to invest in the rice sector 3. Privatization of SOEs 4. Enhancing linkages cooperation and coordination - Training and retraining of rice researchers, policy researchers and extension staff… - Adopting a more results-oriented culture in innovation activities - Policies related to incentives (tax, access to land, credits …) - The State budget has more money to support farmers and the private sector - Between national research centers, extension and schools - Network with international research centers and private sector - Among ministries (Agricultural, Health, Infrastructure…) - Participation of communities in design, implementation, maintenance and monitoring - GAP certification, organic rice production and other crop production standards in order to 24
  • 25. Focus for Policy development Orientation Recommendation 4. Equitable access and control over land & inputs 5. Poverty reduction, gender equality 6. More participation in management of Drainage and Irrigation - Process of ‘land conversions’ more transparent and fairer - Protecting the farmer’s rights to land, more stable property rights - Land-use planning system - Small-scale farmers have equal rights, compared to large ones for access to credit, technology and market information. - Contributions by water users for operation, maintenance - Participation of communities in design, implementation, maintenance and monitoring - GAP certification, organic rice production and other crop production standards in order to access specific export niche markets 7. Food safety norms, certification and regulations - Policies facilitating investment in public R&D and technology transfer schemes, subsidies for private R&D, intellectual property rights 25
  • 26. Focus for Policy development Orientation Recommendation 8. R&D 9. Methodology of farming extension services - Develop institutional and policy reforms to enhance farmers’ access to improved public agricultural and natural resources management services. - More participation in farming extension from communities, cooperatives, enterprises, private persons 10. More on-farm and off-farm diversification - More flexibility from Government in approving conversion of rice land to soy- bean, corn and cash crops - Same level of support from Government to corn or soy- bean production as to rice production 11. Increase the production efficiency and competitiveness of rice value chains - One process system with land consolidation - More long term credits for farmers and cooperatives - Improve the efficiency of farming extension and supervise process of sustainable production - More incentives from Government for private investment in rice 26
  • 27. Focus for Policy development Orientation Recommendation 12. Market development, more lucrative markets - Enhance the competitiveness of the private sector - Develop new markets (South America, Africa, Middle East) - More market integration and linkages (trade agreements, product exchanges) 13. Creating more added value - Provide private companies with more incentives and favorable conditions investing in agriculture • Having direct linkages with farmers producing high quality rice (Japonica, Jasmine, Parboiled) • Investing modern technologies of processing rice and recycling by-products • Undertaking branding activities 14. Market stabilization - Provide exporters having direct customers overseas with more incentives and favorable conditions - Provide vulnerable groups with rice, more food-for- work programs 27
  • 28. Reflections policy tools for restructuring the rice sector • The government of Vietnam reducing its role in productive activities where the private sector is taking the lead as a driver of change • The Government now focus on creating an enabling environment including policies facilitating farmers and private doing business for sustainable long-term growth. Institutional and policy reforms are needed to enhance farmers’ access to improved public services. • There are no perfect policies, but often trade-off in everything; thus policy makers often ask themselves if their current policy set addresses as much as possible stated objectives. • To minimize mistakes and obtain desired objectives, make sure if new policies are based on sound research and improve transparency in the policy making process, including information on objectives, measures and policy tools • Policy implementation should be accompanies by a sound monitoring and evaluation system.
  • 29. • usiness environment for agriculture: focus on general services Australia, Chile, New Zealand
  • 31. Prepared by Nguyen Luong Nhan, email : nhannl@yahoo.com.vn March 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam References • Nguyen Trung Kien (2015) Rice Policy in Vietnam, IPSARD • Dang Kim Son (2015) Restructuring rural economy, IPSARD • Nguyen Luong Nhan (2015) Rice Value Chain Analysis and Upgrading Strategy for high quality rice in Thua Thien Hue, IRC • Nguyen Luong Nhan (2015), How to add value to rice, IRC • SNV (2006) Rice Value Chain in Dien Bien Province, report • Vo Thi Thanh Loc and Nguyen Phu Son (2011) Rice Value Chain Analysis in the Mekong River Delta, Can Tho University

Editor's Notes

  1. CAGR: compound annual growth rate The partial reform in 1981: ngày 13-1-1981, Ban Bí thư ban hành Chỉ thị 100 về khoán sản phẩm đến nhóm và người lao động, thường gọi tắt là khoán 100. accounts for one third of the S&T government budget. The budget investing in agricultural research, extension and information activities increase annually 10-15%. Support hybrid rice varieties for farmers.
  2. 373a/QĐ-TTg ngay 15/3/2014: thu mua tạm trữ vụ Đông Xuân 2013-2014 Thu mua tạm trữ 1triệu tấn gạo từ 15/3-30/4/2014 Hỗ trợ tối đa 100% lãi suất cho doanh nghiệp mua tạm trữ trong 4 tháng Hiệp hội LT phân giao các thương nhân thu mua, phối hợp UBND các tỉnh, TP thực hiện phân giao, chỉ đạo thu mua 65/2014/TT-BTC HƯỚNG DẪN HỖ TRỢ LÃI SUẤT TIỀN VAY NGÂN HÀNG ĐỂ MUA TẠM TRỮ THÓC, GẠO VỤ ĐÔNG XUÂN 2013-2014
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  5. 373a/QĐ-TTg ngay 15/3/2014: thu mua tạm trữ vụ Đông Xuân 2013-2014 Thu mua tạm trữ 1triệu tấn gạo từ 15/3-30/4/2014 Hỗ trợ tối đa 100% lãi suất cho doanh nghiệp mua tạm trữ trong 4 tháng Hiệp hội LT phân giao các thương nhân thu mua, phối hợp UBND các tỉnh, TP thực hiện phân giao, chỉ đạo thu mua 65/2014/TT-BTC HƯỚNG DẪN HỖ TRỢ LÃI SUẤT TIỀN VAY NGÂN HÀNG ĐỂ MUA TẠM TRỮ THÓC, GẠO VỤ ĐÔNG XUÂN 2013-2014