‘Hunger era’ in Vietnam – P3: Flouting rules to buy rice for malnutrition-afflicted people
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 15:50 GMT+7
In a unified nation in the late 1970s and 1980s, many people in Ho Chi Minh City suffered from malnutrition because rice and other necessities were banned from being circulated among localities.
Local authorities had to make a decision to break the regulations of the central government by buying rice from farmers in the Mekong Delta and transporting it to the city for distributing to residents.
The decision brought benefits to both the buyers and sellers who had rice in abundance but they were prohibited from selling it to purchase other products.
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