AGPPS started out as a small firm with 23 employees that sold pesticides to rice farmers in the Mekong Delta. While offering advice on spraying crops, they seized the opportunity to expand into the distribution business. In the last few years, AGPPS has become not only the country’s largest pesticide manufacturer, but also a major rice exporter. Along with neighboring An Giang Import Export Co, they were one of the two Vietnamese companies that won rice export contracts with Japan, convincing the East Asian country that they had the technical expertise to control pesticide levels.