The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Đinh Trọng Thắng, director of the Department of Investment, under the Research Institute of the Central Economic Management – Ministry of Planning and Investment talks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on what the country should do to attract enterprises to invest in agriculture.

Dutch businesses have shown interest in Việt Nam’s agriculture sector in general and the vegetable processing industry in particular as the industry has gown well in recent years.

This is the Year of the Dog.

Dogs have a place in the life and culture of Việt Nam.

The dog is the most popular domestic animal of the Vietnamese. As the country celebrates the New Year, stories about dogs can be heard everywhere.

Residents of Thuận Nam District in the south-central coastal province of Ninh Thuận are forced to abandon hundreds of hectares of cultivated land when local authorities inspect cases of encroachment of cultivation land.

Night after night, thousands of cubic metres of sand and gravel have been illegally mined from a portion of the Cầu River, causing erosion and affecting the dyke system for 200ha of agricultural land, online newspaper phapluatplus.vn reports.

Hundreds of thousands of households living along Lô River have been desperately seeking for help from authorised agencies as their cultivated land are at serious risks of being swept away due to rampant illegal sand mining.

More than 30 people are dead or missing after tragically damaging rains and floods hit northern mountainous provinces over the past three days.

Many households in northern mountainous Hoà Bình Province have destroyed their cultivated land in search for gold, claiming that they have dug shrimp ponds to avoid local authority’s supervision.