– Glutinous rice is a type of rice with medium length grain, fat belly, milky white color, very flexible. After cooking, it will be soft and very sticky, used to make sticky rice, cakes and stand out like traditional cakes in Vietnam.
– Glutinous rice is grown for 3 crops in a year (February to April – Spring Winter, June to August – Summer Autumn and November to December – Autumn Winter.). This type is grown a lot in Long An, Dong Thap, An Giang and some other provinces in the Mekong Delta. In particular, sticky rice grown in Tan Tru, Long An or Phu Tan, An Giang produces the best quality sticky rice.
– Glutinous rice is exported to China, the Philippines and Malaysia a lot.