VTV reflects, currently, ST25 rice is impersonated, counterfeiting appeared rampant in the domestic market, causing consumers to fall into the matrix, do not know what is real, is fake.

At dealers, the ST25 rice supply is always abundant, they always have a variety of ST25s for customers to choose, the private ST25 to the company's ST25, with the same packaging labels.

Not only at agents, on e-commerce floors, ST25 rice is also sold a lot at prices from 20,000 to 50,000 VND / kg and is confirmed everywhere that it is genuine rice of engineer Ho Quang Cua. It is this corruption of origin and counterfeitly sophisticated packaging that consumers do not know.

To determine exactly what is the real ST25 rice product, talk to Tien Phong newspaper, Mr. Ho Quang Cua, the father of the ST25 rice brand, said that each year his business supplies about 3,000 tons of ST25 rice to the market and packaged with full trademark. On the package, there is information on the name of enterprise Ho Quang Tri, production address, and attached with a triangle logo certified by the Global Rice Trade Organization. In particular, the packaging must include 4 phone numbers of the business, the couple, Mr. Cua and Mrs. Trinh Kim Tuyen, and the phone number of the daughter. "If not these 4 phone numbers, then they are not rice produced by our business", Mr. Cua affirmed.

According to Mr. Cua, along with the supply of 3,000 tons of rice, this business has just exported to the market about 4,000 tons of seed paddy, equivalent to 100,000 tons of ST25 rice not grown by him will be available in the market.

 “These varieties are all grown and distributed by other businesses. This time is also their first harvest, but when distributed, clearly written the business information, ”Mr. Cua said.

Mr. Cua also said that there are dozens of fake rice on the market, imitation of his brand. His family is also reflecting to authorities to take part in this situation.