Preservation of agricultural products is a major technological challenge for large-scale agricultural producers, especially in a country like Việt Nam with half the population engaged in farming activities.

Danh Khang is studying the third grade at a primary school in Phú Quốc island district of southern Kiên Giang Province although he is 14 years old.

Lack of attention to registering brand names and geographical indications is causing difficulties to Vietnamese agricultural products, which are sometimes shut out of other markets after their names are usurped by others, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

 The Government has aimed to prevent the construction of high-rise buildings in central Hà Nội, but investors have still found ways to get licences for their projects, according to construction expert Trần Ngọc Hùng.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to complete a report on plans to use VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$157 million) from the State budget for the socio-economic development of resettlement areas in four northern mountainous provinces.

Việt Nam, with its open and internationally integrated economy, had been enjoying a ‘golden population’ period with a high number of working-age people. However, the quality of the labour force was not ‘golden’, experts said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Ethnic minority households in Ea Trang Commune in Đắk Lắk Province’s M’Đrắk District have escaped poverty by planting thousands of hectares of acacia forests on barren land and hills.

Land is considered the most important aspect of agricultural production. However, slow land accumulation and policy obstacles are hindering the development of the agricultural land market in Việt Nam.

HCM City now has 15 public employment service centres and 82 companies providing services to help enterprises find workers.