Many provinces in the Mekong Delta are seeing an uptick in new apartment projects, facilitated by a rise in housing demand and traffic infrastructure development.
Jackfruits, longans and limes from Mekong Delta provinces now can fetch prices two to four times higher compared to months ago when travel restrictions between places were enforced.
Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are making efforts to develop digital farming, enabling farmers to use technologies to take care of their farms remotely.
The industry and trade departments of HCM City and 13 Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces signed an agreement on Wednesday to extend their market stabilisation programme by another year.
The Mekong Delta provinces need to apply advanced technology in agriculture, human resources training, e-government and climate-change adaptation, experts said yesterday at a conference held in Vinh Long Province.
The use of modern technologies enabled enterprises in Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces to achieve outstanding results last year, a recent survey by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Can Tho city, has found.
The Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV) has agreed to provide a
VND3.4 trillion (US$163 million) loan for 11 projects in the Mekong
Delta provinces for 2016-20 and continuing to 2030.
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces earned US$229 million from
exporting 516,000 tonnes of rice in January, up 3.2 per cent over the
same period last year, according to the Steering Committee for the
Southwestern Region.