Creating brand names for Southeastern farm produce

To make their produce competitive in the regional market, farmers in the Mekong Delta’s southeastern provinces have created brands for them and adopted new technologies.

Dreaming of clean vegetables The founders of the start-up Green Farm have developed a vegetable growing machine that takes up less than a square metre of space and can automatically water and fertilise vegetables.

Trà Vinh to switch to other crops on 7,400ha of low-yield rice fields The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh plans to use 7,400ha of low-yield rice fields for growing other crops or fruits or for aquaculture farming this year.

Trà Vinh expands climate change adaptation models

The Project of Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta in Trà Vinh Province (AMD Trà Vinh) has helped locals implement 53 production models since 2015, according to its co-ordinating board.

Organic farmers unable to make a clean break

The morning glory plants stood unharvested.

Considering how popular a green vegetable this is across the length and breadth of Vietnam, it was strange that farmer Nguyễn Mạnh Hồng could not be bothered to cut and sell them.

Đà Nẵng to invest in clean vegetables

Đà Nẵng City’s agricultural sector plans to develop greenhouse vegetable projects in the coming years.

PM urges food safety at impromptu market visit

Small businesses should not sell low-quality food products that come from unclear sources, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said to fruit vendors in the capital’s Hoàn Kiếm District while paying an unexpected visit to the Long Biên wholesale vegetable market to inspect food safety, yesterday morning.

PM inspects food safety at vegetable market

Small businesses should not sell low-quality food products that come from unclear sources, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said to fruit vendors in the capital’s Hoàn Kiếm District this morning.

Japan eyes TPP investment in VN agriculture

Japanese agricultural businesses are making a beeline for Việt Nam since the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is set to open up their country’s market and bring import tariffs down to zero.

Pepper exports jump 16.5% Pepper exports rose 20 per cent year-on-year by volume and 16.5 per cent by value in the first nine months, according to the Viet Nam Pepper Association.