The plan included 22 reserve departments in cities and provinces across the country, who are put in charge of 196 bidding packages to purchase domestically produced, long grain 15 per cent broken rice, milled from the 2024 Spring harvest.
Viet Nam must invest to raise its fuel reserve capacity, said economists and policymakers during a conference discussing how to encourage investment from the private sector in fuel infrastructure and to stabilise fuel supply and demand.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) last month bought about US$0.65 billion, bringing Viet Nam''s foreign exchange reserves to $92.43 billion, according to the BSC Securities Company (BSC).
Viet Nam''s foreign exchange reserves will recover to the level of three months of imports and reach $102 billion by the end of this year from the current level of $89 billion.
For the first time, contractors who signed deals with the General Department of State Reserves will be rated using a credit system reflecting their ability and commitment to deliver on contracts.
The international reserves held by the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) were equal to US$92billion at the end of August, up from $80 billion at the end of December.
The retail prices of petrol fell by more than VND600 per litre on Monday following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.
Experts estimate that around VND62.2 trillion has been pumped through the OMO channel in the last week of November by the central bank after eight straight months of withdrawing money.