Technology in rice production of Long An is still simple and is only able to produce raw rice, while producing parboiled rice is becoming popular in the world.

Meanwhile, knowing the importance of processing, Thailand invested a lot in building processing factories. 90% of rice factories are at a large scale and equipped with modern technology in Thailand (thai-hommalirice, 2013). Meanwhile, there are still a large number of small processing factories in Long An and rural households are not equipped with standardized warehouses or advanced technology for processing rice after harvesting in the field so that the uniformity of rice quality are not ensured in different consignments, which is one of core reasons for low prices of rice for export to the Philippines. Drying depends on climate conditions and there is still a lack of totally applying drying equipment so that drying is carried out manually in some communes. Some households have to scatter rice on roads for drying. Therefore, the percentage of breakage and impurities is high. On the other hand, summer-autumn crops are in the rainy season, which means drying is very difficult to be conducted. There is a high possibility of increasing moisture content.

In Thailand, there are two processing systems: milling factories and processing systems of exporters. Milling factories are equipped with modern machinery and received financial support from Government for storage. Processing systems are at a large scale with modern warehouses, which are near ports for loading rice consignments. In Long An, there are also two processing systems: small milling factories with no attention to quality of rice and processing systems of exporters. However, these processing places are very far from Sai Gon port, so transporting costs are high. Recently, under the large scale paddy field model, rural households who participate are provided with technology for processing and financial support, but the model has not been greatly expanded yet.