Agriculture

Vietnam has gained the first harvests for the 1 million hectare high-quality low-emission cultivation pilot project and is entering the acceleration period. It is necessary to mobilize VND20 trillion more for the period.According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Rural Development (MARD), when applying the ...

Under a plan of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Vietnam would not sell carbon credits abroad in the first phase of the carbon credit market. The draft plan says the domestic carbon credit market would run on a trial basis in 2025-2028, during which carbon ...

In Vietnam, the agricultural sector accounts for about 30% of the total greenhouse gas emissions nationwide, mainly concentrated in two areas: rice cultivation, and livestock farming. Therefore, reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural production is a major orientation that Quang Binh Province is implementing through ...

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organised a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on October 9 to launch the Capacity Building for Sustainable and Low-Carbon Rice Innovations in Southeast Asia (CABIN) project. The aim is to promote rice straw management in Southeast ...

Although biotechnology has achieved many successes, the development of this technology in Vietnam still faces many challenges, said Associate Professor Nguyen Huu Ninh, Deputy Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Environment. He made the statement at today’s forum titled ‘Achievements and Directions for ...

Scientists at the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research today issued a warning bulletin that flooding due to heavy rain and high tides may occur in some localities in the Mekong Delta region in the coming days. At this time, farmers in the region are ...

Experts have gathered in a seminar held on August 26 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development focusing on advancing sustainable development and green growth in the Mekong Delta region through a significant rice cultivation project. The initiative aims to enhance rice production while ...

A meeting on the progress of the World Bank-funded Mekong Delta Climate Resilience and Integrated Transformation Project (MERIT – WB11), which costs more than VND17.75 trillion (approximately $741 million) was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 12 under the chair ...

The implementation of the Mekong Delta regional masterplan for 2021 – 2030, with a vision towards 2050, has helped shift the mindset about food security from developing agriculture based primarily on rice to a model of aquaculture – fruit – rice to increase value and ...

Initial assessments show that the rice farming model under the project to develop 1 million ha of specialised rice cultivation with high quality and low emissions associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta region from now to 2030 has yielded positive results, according to ...