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VN speeds up low-emission rice cultivation, mobilizes VND20 trillion
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 ...
Tam An
MOF drafts regulation for carbon credit market, MARD aims to sell credits abroad
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 ...
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Capacity project promotes sustainable, low-carbon rice production in SE Asia
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 ...
Mekong Delta rice projects: early wins, ongoing hurdles
Việt Nam’s plan to cultivate one million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice in the Mekong Delta has yielded some early success. A comparison between project and non-project fields also reveals a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The former emits about 12 tonnes less CO2 equivalent ...
Scientists warn flooding due to heavy rain and high tides in Mekong Delta
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 ...
Translated By Anh Quan
First program to generate carbon credits from rice cultivation piloted
On June 11, Deputy Director Trinh Duc Toan of the North Central Agricultural Science and Technology Institute said that the unit is coordinating with Green Carbon INC to implement a program to improve farmers’ lives by generating carbon credits from rice cultivation. This is the ...
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Southeast Asia’s first Bayer ForwardFarm launched in Vietnam
Bayer Vietnam in coordination with the National Agricultural Extension Center (NAEC) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has inaugurated the first ForwardFarm in Southeast Asia located in Thoi Lai district, Can Tho city. ForwardFarm Can Tho brings together farmers, technology partners, scientists and academia, ...
OV scientist in France helps promote sustainable rice cultivation in Mekong Delta
Dr. Le Toan Thuy, an overseas Vietnamese scientist in France, has joined projects to help Vietnamese managers and farmers effectively develop rice cultivation models in the Mekong Delta region.The projects aim to monitor and observe flood, drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta by ...
Border soldiers help improve lives for ethnic minority people
The lives of ethnic minority people in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Minh Hóa District have changed thanks to the care of soldiers over the past 10 years.Bringing wet rice to Rục ethnic people was a “revolution” which helped people approach new production methods to ...
