Agriculture
Agricultural commodities, processing and products
Vietnam gets help with rice cultivation
Vietnam is receiving support to apply remote sensor technology in rice production.Phase 3 of the project ‘Remote Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies’ (RIICE) was launched in Hanoi on November 13. The Swiss-funded project will support the use of satellite data for ...
Husbandry industry drives to industrialisation
The animal husbandry industry has set an average growth target of 4 to 5 percent per year from 2020 to 2025, and 3-4 percent in 2026-2030. Livestock production would be developed by modernising and industrialising large-scale and household farms between 2020 and 2030, said Nguyễn Xuân Dương, ...
More needed to strengthen links in global agricultural value chains
MARD & VCCI hold “Vietnamese Businesses: Links to Participate in Global Agricultural Value Chains” forum in Hanoi.In order to improve added value in Vietnam’s agricultural value chain, MARD has presented a number of solutions: (i) Promote the spread of information regarding links associated with production, ...
Nghi Do
Mekong Delta agriculture adapts to climate change
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field. To develop the ...
Vietnam wants to be top 15 organic farming countries
The agriculture ministry seeks to turn Vietnam into one of world’s top 15 organic farming countries by 2030, and has its sights on the EU market given trade deals.Under a draft proposal it will submit to the prime minister in the fourth quarter, the Ministry ...
Dat Nguyen
Vietnamese agriculture strengthened by M&A
With the country’s agricultural sector pursuing greater sustainable development, mergers and acquisitions are helping the sector create positive changes thanks in part to the support of high technology. Although agriculture is not among the leading sectors for M&A in the country as yet, it has nonetheless ...
ASEAN forges cooperation in agriculture, forestry
The Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 40th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (Special SOM-AMAF) opened in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 5. Right after the opening ceremony, the officials discussed and proposed some priorities in agriculture and forestry ...
Rice damaged by hydroelectric plant construction
Rice paddy fields in a Central Highlands commune are facing drought after a river’s flow was diverted as the result of the construction a hydroelectric plant.More than 100ha of rice in Quảng Phú Commune, Krông Nô District, Đắk Nông Province has been affected since the Krông Nô River ...
Government plans to have 100,000 enterprises in agriculture by 2030
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a Resolution covering solutions to encourage and foster investment in sustainable and safe development of agriculture. The Government sets the goals to maintain growth rate of agriculture, forestry and aquaculture at 3% annually meanwhile the export value of agriculture, ...
Vietnam’s coffee exports plummet as robusta prices fall
The sharp fall in export earnings was caused by the price of robusta coffee falling in London due to a global glut, with Vietnam getting the lowest rates of all exporters.The price is decided by rates fixed on global coffee trading floors at the time ...
