Agriculture
Agricultural commodities, processing and products
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 ...
RoK helps Vietnam improve rice value chain
A cooperation agreement on the implementation of a project on rice value chain improvement in the Hong River Delta was signed between representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) of in Hanoi on July 12.The project, ...
Vietnam develops anti-African swine fever vaccine
A vaccine against African swine fever (AFS) virus by the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS) has produced initial positive outcomes on experimental scale, unveiled Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong.The AFS disease, first discovered in Hung Yen on February 1 ...
