Summer-Autumn Crop 2025: Rice prices stable but profits decrease

At this time, farmers in some places in the province are focusing on harvesting the 2025 Summer-Autumn rice crop, while input prices have increased sharply, causing farmers' profits to remain low.

Farmers harvest summer-autumn rice

Low profit

Having just sold nearly 11 tons of Summer-Autumn rice, Mr. Nguyen Van Nghi, residing in Xom Ruong hamlet, Hao Duoc commune, Tay Ninh province, said that this crop his family cultivated nearly 4 hectares of rice, of which about 1.7 hectares of OM 5451 rice had just been harvested, the selling price of fresh rice at the field to traders was 5,600 VND/kg.

According to Mr. Nghi, compared to the same period last year, this year's weather conditions are unfavorable, as there were many consecutive heavy rains from the beginning of the season, high humidity, so diseases increased a lot during the flowering stage, affecting productivity. In addition, rice prices also decreased by about 800 - 1,000 VND/kg, so post-harvest profits were not as expected.

Rice prices are not high while agricultural material prices are increasing, making farmers' profits increasingly less.

While harvesting more than 1 hectare of OM 5451 rice in Voi hamlet, Ben Cau commune, Tay Ninh province, farmer Nguyen Van Binh said that before harvesting, traders came to the field to check the rice and set the price at 5,800 VND/kg; with about 12 bags of rice per hectare, he estimated the rice yield this crop at about 6.5 tons/ha.

Fertilizer prices continue to rise

Compared to early 2025, the current price of many types of inorganic fertilizers (chemical fertilizers) has increased from several tens of thousands of VND to several hundreds of thousands of VND per bag of fertilizer, 50 kg/bag. The sharpest price increase is in some types of DAP and nitrogen fertilizers (urea), while NPK, potassium and phosphorus fertilizers have increased less.

According to Mr. Binh, the selling price of rice this crop is the same as the last winter-spring crop, while the yield is lower and the investment cost has increased because the price of fertilizers and pesticides is about 15% higher than the last crop, so the profit farmers earn after 3 months of cultivation is not high.

According to many households harvesting early Summer-Autumn rice in Phuoc Chi, Ben Cau, Ninh Dien and Hao Duoc communes (Tay Ninh province), this crop often has higher investment costs than the Winter-Spring crop because the soil is no longer rich in nutrients, and there are many types of pests and diseases that exist from the previous crop. Therefore, in order for the rice plants to grow well and achieve high yields, farmers must increase the amount of fertilizer and proactively use pesticides to limit pests and diseases.

Farmers in Ben Cau commune are busy harvesting rice.

“The total investment cost for one hectare of rice this crop is about 28 million VND/ha, including land preparation, field cleaning, pumping, rice seeds, agricultural materials, hiring labor to replant rice, harvesting, etc. All costs have increased, especially fertilizer prices, while productivity has decreased, and the selling price is 2,000 - 2,500 VND/kg lower than the same period last year, so having a profit after harvest, even if it is small, is still a good thing,” a farmer in Ben Cau commune shared.

According to some agricultural material dealers in Thanh Dien, Ninh Dien, Ben Cau communes, the price of nitrogen fertilizers (urea) such as Phu My Fertilizer, Ca Mau Fertilizer, etc. is at 600,000 - 650,000 VND/bag. This price is about 70,000 - 100,000 VND/bag higher, depending on the type, compared to the same period last year.

Many other types of DAP fertilizer are also sold at quite high prices. Korean DAP prices range from 1,200,000 - 1,300,000 VND/bag; Chinese DAP with yellow grains, Russian DAP with black and green grains range from 960,000 - 1,100,000 VND/bag.

The price of NPK 20-20-15 Ba Con Co and Binh Dien is at 1,000,000 - 1,100,000 VND/bag. The price of Potassium (Russia, Belarus, Israel) is at 460,000 - 580,000 VND/bag. Phosphate (Long Thanh) is 250,000 - 260,000 VND/bag, phosphate (Van Dien) is at 300,000 - 320,000 VND/bag,...

Agricultural materials must go through many intermediaries to reach farmers, leading to higher prices compared to prices at factories and importers. Increased fertilizer prices have led to increased production costs for rice and many other crops, causing farmers' profits to decrease. Meanwhile, recently, many agricultural products have not been able to maintain high prices like the same period last year./.

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