Agriculture and fishing
Agriculture
Vietnam ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in food security
Vietnam was ranked fourth in Southeast Asia and 54th in the world on the Economist Intelligence Unit food security index.Vietnam did well in eight indicators – presence and quality of food safety net programmes, access to financing for farmers, change in average food costs, proportion ...
Medicinal plants help ethnic minority people escape from poverty
Growing medicinal plants has helped tackle hunger and poverty for ethnic minority people in the central province of Quang Nam’s Tay Giang district, according to Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper.According to Tran Van Ta, head of the district’s agriculture and rural development department, 90 percent of ...
Digital farming holds key to solving agriculture paradox
Digitisation of farming is inevitable and Việt Nam should embrace it to resolve the agricultural paradox of producing more while preserving natural resources and to grab the opportunities brought by free trade agreements, experts have said.The Việt Nam Digital Agriculture Association was launched in September ...
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 ...
Half of Mekong Delta to be lost under sea level: research
More than half of the Mekong Delta will disappear under sea level in the next two generations if no action is taken now, research has found.The results of the five-year-long ‘Rise and Fall’ research project funded by the Netherlands government announced recently shed light on ...
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, ...
Land policies restrain Vietnam’s agricultural development
Scattered, small-sized land lots hamper farmers and stop companies from investing in agriculture, while barriers set by land accumulation policies also marginalise farmers and hinder the development of Vietnam’s agriculture.These warnings were voiced by experts at the Vietnam Autumn Agricultural Forum 2019 – the largest ...
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, ...
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Conference reviews new rural development emulation movement
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) held a conference in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province on September 27 to review the emulation movement “The whole nation joins hands to build new-style rural areas” in the period of 2011-2020.Up to date, a total ...
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 ...
