Vietnam's floating rice that grows with the floods: at two tonnes per hectare, can it become a raw material for Japan?
In the Mekong Delta's flood season, there is a native rice that extends its stalks to 3–5 m in step with the rising water. It is called lua mua noi in Vietnamese and floating rice in Japanese. A Vietnamese agriculture-and-environment newspaper dated September 24, 2026 reported that Le Thanh Phong, deputy director of the Institute of Climate Change at An Giang University...
