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Mekong Delta authorities step in to help farmers sell their crops as traders play truant

Mekong Delta authorities step in to help farmers sell their crops as traders play truant

Authorities in Mekong Delta provinces are helping farmers sell their harvests after they were found struggling amid COVID-19 transport and movement restrictions.
Efforts made to promote sale of crops in virus-hit provinces

Efforts made to promote sale of crops in virus-hit provinces

Efforts are being made to promote sale of crops, fruits and flowers of farmers in coronavirus-hit provinces, including the two hardest-hit Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, when Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday is coming near.
Demand for organic farm produce rising in Viet Nam

Demand for organic farm produce rising in Viet Nam

Demand for organic products has been rising sharply globally including in Viet Nam, and this is good news for businesses investing in them, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Tra Vinh promotes farming of key crops

Tra Vinh promotes farming of key crops

Tra Vinh Province People’s Committee has asked local authorities to speed up the province’s agricultural restructuring programme by replacing ineffective rice paddy fields with other crops.    
Rubber farmers challenges as prices bounce

Rubber farmers’ challenges as prices bounce

The southeastern region of Viet Nam offers favourable conditions for the cultivation of major industrial crops such as rubber, coconut trees and pepper vines, all of which earn high profits, but challenges remain as yields have decreased for various reasons,...
Farmers shift to more resilient crops in the Delta

Farmers shift to more resilient crops in the Delta

Beset by climate change impacts, Mekong Delta farmers give up on rice, but the real answer lies in organic farming, experts aver.
Surge in Red River hurts crops

Surge in Red River hurts crops

After hydrologists warned last week that huge discharges of water from Chinese reservoirs upstream would flood the Hong (Red River) in the north, water levels have risen sharply, damaging ships and destroying crops.
Irradiation to boost VN fruit exports

Irradiation to boost VN fruit exports

Viet Nam expects to increase fresh fruit exports to the US and Australia next year following the US government''s approval of irradiation as an effective quarantine system.
Viet Nam set to grow GM crops

Viet Nam set to grow GM crops

Genetically modified crops will be commercially produced in Viet Nam this year, Institute of Agriculture Genetics director Le Huy Ham told a workshop on Tuesday in Ha Noi.
Food producers urged to add value

Food producers urged to add value

Enterprises in the food industry should focus more on improving production technologies to products with added value, delegates said at a conference in HCM City yesterday.
Rice exporters target stable supplies

Rice exporters target stable supplies

The State should control the flow of rice exports through Viet Nam''s border gates to ensure enough supply for export processing, experts said.
Satellite technology to be applied in agriculture sector

Satellite technology to be applied in agriculture sector

Viet Nam plans to use remote sensing technology to boost production of key crops, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said at a conference last week.
Delta plans to swap rice for higher-value crops

Delta plans to swap rice for higher-value crops

Authorities in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta are planning to switch from low-yield rice to higher-value crops like maize, sesame, peanut, soybean, and others on 112,000ha by 2015, the Crop Production Department has said.