Vietnamese ST25 rice wins World's Best Rice 2023 award for second time

This is the second time that the local product has been given the title.

According to the results, the Vietnamese rice variety won first prize for the World’s Best Rice 2023 competition and was duly honoured at the World Rice Conference Summit held in the Philippines.

Second and third prizes went to the Cambodian and Indian rice varieties, says Rice Trader, a founder and owner of the competition.

Previously, Vietnamese rice ST25 also won the World's Best Rice award back in 2019. The local rice variety was also awarded second prize at the World's Best Rice Contest 2020 in the United States and was named among the Top 4 of the World’s Best Rice 2022.

The ST25 rice variety was developed by a group of Soc Trang-based agricultural engineers led by Ho Quang Cua, former deputy director of the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department.

In 2019, his ST24 rice variety was crowned the best in the world at The Rice Trader World Rice Conference 2019 in the Philippines.