--- title: who depends on mekong rice canonical_url: https://ensurance.app/guide/who-depends-on-mekong-rice markdown_url: https://ensurance.app/guide/who-depends-on-mekong-rice.md subtitle: "386 farmers on one scheme, a company that already buys the harvest, and a delta that eats from the same fields" category: ensurance --- # who depends on mekong rice *386 farmers on one scheme, a company that already buys the harvest, and a delta that eats from the same fields* Mekong rice is a flooded field, a harvest window, and the people who still eat from that plain. If you are tracing who depends on those paddies, you are tracing water in the furrows, a company that already buys delta tonnes, and a region where, in one article's portrait, 77% of people work in agriculture. Can Tho is the city on the map. The field is the subject. :::johnson **the mekong delta rice plain is infrastructure** — cities and export mills sit on top of fields that still need fresh water from the river. When the plain fails, the harvest fails with it. [corporations mapping supply-chain exposure →](/solutions/corporations?from=guide&topic=mekong-rice) ::: ## the field is the first dependent Start with the people standing in the water. On Cambodia's Kamping Puoy scheme, Green Carbon reported **386 farmers** across **1,089.66 hectares** for the **2025 wet season** — irrigation cycles shortened, yields measured, methane credited as their product. Those farmers depend on the schedule the water-user associations keep and on the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the provincial department named on the same page. Royal University of Agriculture appears as a partner, not as the person who wades the row. Green Carbon operates those cited hectares and develops the credit. They are not the buyer of the living paddy, and they are not the offtaker of the grain. Treat them as the operator already in the field: measurements, coordination, a methane line item for someone else's ledger. The rice itself is still water held in the plot and soil under the roots — the subject of the wider series, not the tonne of CO₂e. The same dependency pattern shows up on the Vietnamese side without merging the numbers. New Forests described about **8,000 hectares** in Can Tho as Green Carbon's "current operations" in a **2 September 2026** release — their phrase, not a registry polygon. An Giang carried a finished demonstration of about **100 hectares** across three crop cycles on a Green Carbon page dated **24 April 2025**. Those hectares are the same kind of living field as Kamping Puoy; they are not one added field. Phu Tho's **2,000 hectares** in the same New Forests sentence is **not** this Mekong delta door — one clause only, then back to the river plain. ## who eats from the plain Move from the row to the region. Reporting ahead of the **2024–25** dry season, citing Vietnam's Irrigation Department, described a Mekong Delta of about **18 million people** with **77%** working in agriculture — the article's portrait of the region, not a Can Tho census. Fifteen large irrigation systems serve more than **2.5 million hectares**, roughly **64%** of the delta's agricultural land in that description. Those eaters and workers depend on the plain still producing, which means they depend on fresh water reaching the same canals that fill the paddies — the dependency post 1 named from the other direction. When the canals run short, the failure shows up in kitchens before it shows up in a report. The years and the hectare counts for that salt live in [the salt that reaches the rice](/guide/the-salt-that-reaches-the-rice). This post stays with who depends. Governments depend here too, even when the first reader is a corporate supply-chain lead. Provincial departments and national ministries appear on the same Green Carbon pages as the farmers because someone still authorizes the canal schedule, the extension message, and the emergency water call when the dry season runs long. Ministries are not the buyer of a certificate on the paddy; they are part of why the plain is governed water, not a free background texture behind an export invoice. ## the company that already buys the harvest Loc Troi Group sits in a different chair. By mid-April **2024** the company said it had purchased more than **300,000 tonnes** of Mekong Delta winter–spring rice for **VND 2.5 trillion**, according to Vietnam News / Vietnamnet reporting a **21 May** statement. By **14 May 2024** it had exported nearly **100,000 tonnes** for nearly **US$63 million** — their export figure, not a price of soil or water and not something to scale into a field valuation. Loc Troi is named on Green Carbon's **24 April 2025** page in connection with Japonica export quality. That is not confirmation that Loc Troi offtakes the **8,000 hectares**, the **100 hectares**, or the **1,089.66 hectares** cited above. Say it plainly: a major rice company already depends on delta harvests at scale; the named project polygons have a documented operator, not a documented buyer of those specific fields. For a corporation mapping exposure, that gap matters. The harvest dependency is real — tonnes moved, export revenue booked. The field-condition dependency is parallel: water abundance and soil condition on the paddies that feed those tonnes. [food ensurance](/food.ensurance?from=guide) maps the harvest and the systems that move it; it is not a substitute for naming who stands in the mud. Ownership of the condition question is the cousin argument in [food security is an ownership question](/guide/food-security-is-an-ownership-question) — one clause here, not a retelling. ## three places, three kinds of dependence Can Tho, An Giang, and Battambang are the same kind of field and three different dependence stories. Do not add the hectares. On 2 September 2026, New Forests described about 8,000 hectares in Can Tho as Green Carbon's current operations. That phrase is not a registry and not a survey. The people who depend on those hectares are the farmers the release does not name, and anyone whose rice already comes off that plain. New Forests has a memorandum. It has not deployed capital, and it is not the buyer of the field's water. An Giang's finished demonstration is about 100 hectares across three crop cycles, on a page dated 24 April 2025. The aims on that page, and the June 2026 memorandum with the Department of Agriculture and Environment, talk about 100,000 hectares and millions of tonnes in the 2030s. Those are aims. The dependence that exists today is the demonstration that already ran, plus the delta eaters who need the plain to keep producing. Battambang is the counted cohort: 386 farmers, 1,089.66 hectares, the Kamping Puoy scheme, the 2025 wet season. They depend on the water-user associations' schedule. The Royal University of Agriculture measured. The ministry and the provincial department coordinated. Green Carbon trained farmers and developed the credit. None of those roles is a purchase of the living paddy. Phu Tho's about 2,000 hectares sit in the same New Forests sentence and are not this river. One clause is enough. The Philippines fields and the Mongolian grassland are a different book. ## three dependents, one plain Pull the thread tight. | who | what they need from the plain | | --- | --- | | farmers on the cited schemes | scheduled fresh water, soil that still holds a crop, a harvest that clears the field | | a rice company such as Loc Troi | tonnes that meet export specs, season after season, without the plain shrinking | | delta residents and eaters | rice and wages from a region still described as majority-agricultural | None of those rows is a methane credit. The credit is Green Carbon's product on the operator side. The paddy is the living thing. Landowners reading the same map should hear a narrower sentence. You depend on the association's water turn, on soil that still holds a crop after each harvest, and on a buyer who returns next season. The flooded rice fields on the Mekong, the water held in them, and the soil under them exist whether or not anyone buys a certificate. Ensurance can fund that living paddy. It is not the methane credit, and it is not the river. ## questions the map leaves open ### who are the 386 farmers on Kamping Puoy? They are the **2025 wet season** cohort on **1,089.66 hectares** under the scheme name Green Carbon published **27 February 2026**, coordinating with water-user associations and Cambodian agriculture authorities. They depend on irrigation timing and field condition, not on a certificate mint. ### does Loc Troi buy the Green Carbon project hectares? No confirmed offtake. Loc Troi's **May 2024** purchase and export figures describe delta rice at company scale. The named demonstration and operations hectares have Green Carbon as operator; Loc Troi is not documented here as buyer of those specific polygons. ### what should a corporation do with this dependency map? Map the tonnes, the origin, and the season risk first. [The corporations page](/solutions/corporations?from=guide&topic=mekong-rice) is the door for that map. [Contact](/contact?from=guide&topic=mekong-rice) is the human one when the map outruns the page. ## sources - Green Carbon, Battambang 2025 wet-season results, page stamp 27 February 2026. https://green-carbon.co.jp/en/green-carbon-announces-results-of-cambodias-largest-awd-project-cambodia-2025-wet-season-awd-project-report-now-available-as-a-free-download/ - Green Carbon, 24 April 2025, An Giang demonstration and Verra listing. https://green-carbon.co.jp/en/enverralistsfirstricepaddyproject/ - New Forests, 2 September 2026. https://newforests.com/insight/green-carbon-signs-mou-with-new-forests/ - Vietnam News / Vietnamnet, 23 May 2024, Loc Troi purchase and export figures. https://vietnamnet.vn/en/loc-troi-pays-rice-farmers-after-delay-apologises-2283577.html - Vietnam Plus, Mekong Delta saltwater intrusion ahead of the 2024–25 dry season, citing the Irrigation Department. https://en.vietnamplus.vn/mekong-delta-faces-increased-saltwater-intrusion-in-2024-25-dry-season-post306656.vnp ## the series Can Tho is the door. The subject is the rice field's water and soil. - [can tho stands on a rice plain](/guide/what-the-mekong-rice-plain-depends-on) - [who depends on mekong rice](/guide/who-depends-on-mekong-rice) - [a rice paddy is not a methane credit](/guide/a-rice-paddy-is-not-a-credit) - [the salt that reaches the rice](/guide/the-salt-that-reaches-the-rice) - [who already pays for the mekong rice field](/guide/who-already-pays-for-mekong-rice)