Mr. Ho Quang Cua: The more careful we are, the more fake rice is still produced.

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Traders leave because of mixed rice

Mr. Ho Quang Cua said that in the winter-spring crop of 2018 - 2019, when Chinese traders came to survey the quality of ST24 rice, they discovered dirty rice in many places and they left, not buying anymore.

Then the price of ST24 rice at the field dropped by 2,000 VND/kg, to only 5,200 VND/kg, equal to that of regular rice. Just one year later, the trial production fields where the enterprise cooperated with farmers were collected by traders for seeds.

The consequences of mixing rice varieties for fragrant rice with soft rice are very serious. In early 2019, Chinese traders abandoned the rice because they knew that mixed rice grains are often dry and need a lot of water. When cooked with soft rice (ST24 rice) that needs less water, it will not cook.

The noisy incidents in the 2022 delicious rice contest show that when the first and second place winners were the same type of rice. The situation of changing the names of ST24 and ST25 rice seeds once happened when ST24 and ST25 rice seeds were sold by an An Giang enterprise in many places in the Mekong Delta.

There is a type of rice grown in demonstration in Tai Van - Soc Trang with a different name but the analyzed gene system is of ST25.

According to Mr. Cua, the case of copyright infringement of seeds has the same intellectual property rights as the seeds in Bac Ninh, but the only difference is that this is seeds, not food.

"With the special characteristics of high-quality rice, good seeds produce delicious rice. That is the means for us to build a national brand for Vietnamese rice.

We have worked hard for a long time to create the seeds for the world of hierarchical certification. Then learning how to build a brand is very difficult. I hope the whole society will support and join hands to preserve it," Mr. Cua suggested.

The more I pay attention, the more counterfeits of our packaging brand. When we instruct consumers on how to identify genuine rice bags, counterfeiters also follow suit and improve their packaging to look exactly like ours, which is really hard work.

Mr. HO QUANG CUA

"Thank you Bac Ninh authorities"

Mr. Cua said that when he discovered counterfeit goods, he asked law enforcement agencies to investigate and find evidence to handle the case.

The 6 violations that are about to be brought to trial in Hanoi are an example of coordination and must be dedicated and thoughtful to have evidence and material evidence to handle.

Talking about the recent case in Bac Ninh, Mr. Cua said he was very moved because for the first time the infringement of intellectual property rights regarding his family's rice brand was brought to trial and sentenced.

He thanked the authorities of Bac Ninh province for their efforts in collecting evidence so that the court could bring the case to trial and sentence the offender in a way that convinced him.

"I am also relieved because the verdict is highly humane in giving the subject a suspended sentence, to serve as a deterrent to the violator and other violators who have not yet been discovered," Mr. Cua added.

According to Mr. Cua, the imitation of ST25 rice in Vietnam started in 2019, just 10 days after ST25 rice first won the world's best rice award in Manila, Philippines.

Then, under the guidance of the Intellectual Property Office, he built and registered for exclusive protection of the rice brand "Mr. Cua ST25" not only in Vietnam but also in many countries around the world and was successively protected by the exclusive trademark.

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