Hà Nội plans to expand safe vegetable growing area steadily

Head of the Cultivation and Plant Protection Division under Hà Nội’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Mạnh Phương speaks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about the city’s safe vegetable production

Niche inventions lessen load on farmers

Nguyễn Thanh Hùng from Hồng Ngự District in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp is famed locally as the “inventor” of a whole host of unique farming machinery.

Farm produce needs to meet tough EU standards under EVFTA The agriculture sector needs to address challenges related to branding, geographical indications, traceability, and intellectual property to take full advantage of the free trade agreement Việt Nam has signed with the EU, speakers said on July 24 at a meeting. 

Global partnerships needed to ensure food security amid pandemic: int’l symposium Global partnerships are needed to ensure food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic and address problems related to climate change, depleting natural resources and pollution, an international seminar on sustainable agriculture development heard in HCM City on Friday.

Việt Nam to increase rice exports to EU under EVFTA Rice quotas for Việt Nam under the EVFTA are expected to push Việt Nam’s rice exports up from the second half of this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Enterprises seek ways to boost agricultural and aquatic exports Vietnamese enterprises need to improve product quality, build their brands, and ensure traceability of goods' origin to increase the volume of agricultural and aquatic exports, experts said at a seminar on June 26 in HCM City.

Agriculture needs more investment in processing industry The agricultural sector needs more investment to develop the processing industry in order to increase exports of local farming products.

Hà Nội in the front line on curtailing the use of pesticide Nguyễn Mạnh Phương, director of the Hà Nội Department of Plant Production and Protection gives an interview on the city’s plan  to curtail the use of pesticide in the agriculture production

Việt Nam to adopt pesticide-free agricultural model: experts Việt Nam needs to shift from the use of conventional pesticides to biopesticides to “better manage weed growth, maintain a high agricultural yield, avoid resistant species, protect soil biodiversity and erosion, and reduce green-house emissions,” according to experts.

Agriculture sector requests drastic measures to prevent ASF recurrence

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued an official document to request 20 provinces and cities to take drastic and synchronous measures to prevent and control African swine fever (ASF).