Social and economic situation in five beginning months of 2015
As of May 15, provinces in the North finished the cultivation of winter-spring rice with the estimated area of 1162 thousand hectares, equaling 100.2% from the same crop last year. According to preliminary assessments, Northern provinces’ winter-spring rice output this year was estimated to reach 7.2 million tons, down 40 – 70 thousand tons compared to 2014’s same crop.