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    ST25

    Gạo ST25 (Gạo Ông Cua)

    A fragrant Vietnamese cultivar bred in Soc Trang province by Ho Quang Cua and colleagues from a cross of ST3 and Tien Vua. It was recognised as a national variety in 2019. ST25 won The Rice Trader's World's Best Rice contest in 2019, 2023 and 2025.

    A pale polished rice grain, illustrated for ST25.
    ST25 — editorial grain study, polished, not to scale. Appearance alone does not establish variety or protected origin.

    Twenty years in Soc Trang

    Ho Quang Cua returned to Soc Trang province around 1980 and began collecting and testing aromatic rice strains. His team introduced ST3 to farmers in 2001. ST25 came from a cross of ST3 with the variety Tien Vua, after about 20 years of work, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recognised it as a national variety in 2019.

    The variety does best in the coastal, brackish land of the Mekong Delta, including rice–shrimp rotation fields. Viet Nam News puts its area at about 200,000 ha nationwide in 2025.

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