According to Ben Tre People’s Committee’s report of the first half of year, during the same period of time, the province finished harvesting the 2008 ten-month crop and 2008-2009 winter-spring crop of rice on a total area of 86,895 hectares and an output of 266,370 metric tonnes. At the moment, the 2009 summer-autumn crop has finished sowing on total area of 24,157 hectares, or 93.3% of the target area of 35,000 hectares. 90% of the rice breed to grow for commercial use fall into the followings: OM 3536, OM 2517, OM 4498, OM 4285, OM 6073, OM 6561, OM 6162, OM 5930, OM 4668, OM 4900, MTL 499.