Economics
Spoiling Rice in Vietnam Show Perils of Food Protectionism
- Some 300,000 tons of rice are stuck at ports nationwide
- Traders are refraining from new contracts over uncertainty
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The owner of one of Vietnam’s biggest rice exporters, Nguyen Quang Hoa, can only watch as 500 containers of sticky rice stranded in a port container yard for a month slowly degrades.