This article aimed to study the performance of rice production in a case study of Y Yen district, Namdinh province in the Red river delta and suggest some recommendation to improve the performance of rice production in the study site. The paper is based on the semi-structure, standard questionnaires and PRA methods to collect data from 48 representative rice producers. The results showed that average land area of rice production was low at 0.27 ha per household, but rice productivity was rather high as 5.34 tons per ha in Spring crop. The average revenue was 34.79 million VND, value added was 17.5 million VND. The production cost was too high, at 29.06 million VND, occupied 83.5% total revenue, which led to the low net income of the household at only 5.7 million VND per ha, accounted for only 16.5% of revenue. Counted on a hectare, hired labor cost took part 29% of total cost, proportion for the material equipment was 26.7%. Fertilizers and pesticide cost accounted for 28.7%, of which, 20% belonged to NPK. Some suggestion to improve the benefit for farmers were: reducing the production cost by using optimal fertilizers, pesticide; good material and equipment management; and applying technology and machine in rice production.