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Grains & Rice
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Grains such as rice and corn
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Grains such as rice and corn
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Five Rice Mills Broken Ground at Once; the Rice Husks Become Power-Generation Fuel for Erex
In Can Tho City, Green CT has broken ground on a chain of five rice mills. Japan's Erex will divert about 250 tonnes of rice husks from 750 tonnes of round-the-clock milling into fuel for biomass power generation. -
Vietnam's floating rice that grows with the floods: at two tonnes per hectare, can it become a raw material for Japan?
In the Mekong Delta's flood season, there is a native rice that extends its stalks to 3–5 m in step with the rising water. It is called lua mua noi in Vietnamese and floating rice in Japanese. A Vietnamese agriculture-and-environment newspaper dated September 24, 2026 reported that Le Thanh Phong, deputy director of the Institute of Climate Change at An Giang University... -
Ca Mau province moves toward 54,000 hectares of low-emission rice, shifting rice cultivation through cooperatives and carbon
Ca Mau province, Vietnam's southernmost province, will convert 54,680 hectares of paddy to low-emission rice by 2030. Alternate wetting and drying cuts seed rice by 20–40%, and profit is boosted by up to about 48,000 yen per hectare. We read, from a Japanese buyer's perspective, this shift in rice cultivation that, built on traceability, has carbon credits in view. -
Why An Giang's rice farming on acid soil turned a profit after giving up reliance on experience
Rice farming in the Mekong Delta has long been said to be "done by experience." The timing of sowing, how water is let in, how much fertilizer is spread—all of it rests on intuition passed from parent to child. Yet in a strongly acidic corner of An Giang province, a farmer who replaced that intuition with soil design, without letting the rice wither... -
Cutting chemical fertilizer for 200,000 yen in profit: the sourcing window opened by An Giang organic rice
In a corner of the Mekong Delta, organically grown rice clearly outearned conventional farming. The organic-rice profit recorded by the Tan Thuan Agricultural Cooperative in Gion Rieng commune, An Giang province, in the 2026 summer-autumn crop was 33.576 million dong per hectare (about 200,000 yen at roughly 60 yen per 10,000 dong, as of July 2026, subject to change... -
The day farmers become crop doctors: Quang Ninh's reduced-pesticide rice opens sourcing to Japan
In Quang Ninh province in northern Vietnam, training has begun for paddy-rice farmers to become "crop doctors." In the Vi Khe area of Lien Hoa ward (phuong Lien Hoa), the ward farmers' association, together with the ward's service center and specialist agencies, has started a three-month course in integrated plant health management (IPHM... -
Even as the Philippines halts aromatic rice, Vietnamese rice rises—supported by Africa
The Philippines, the largest buyer of Vietnamese rice, temporarily halted imports of high-quality aromatic 5%-broken rice in early July 2026. Given an industry structure that relies on a single country for nearly half of export volume, it is a moment when prices could easily collapse. Yet local export prices have instead turned upward... -
Turning straw into fertilizer instead of burning it: Ninh Binh's "green rice" cuts costs by 25%
On July 8, 2026, in Nghia Son village, Ninh Binh province in northern Vietnam, a "green rice-farming + rice-straw circulation model," jointly run by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the local company VAG Group, and the provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment, got under way. It cuts production costs by more than 25%, lifts yields by about 20%, and reduces greenhouse gases from the paddies... -
A cooperative that profits from drones and alternate irrigation: the rice-farming DX of Son Hoa, An Giang
The Son Hoa cooperative in An Giang province brings together 1,800–2,000 hectares and, with XAG P100 drones and alternate irrigation, achieves 30–40% water savings and a 10% cut in input costs. We read, from a Japanese sourcing perspective, this "organized growing region" that sells on contract to the likes of Loc Troi. -
Dong Phu on the outskirts of Hanoi: why USDA organic rice doubled farmers' income
A USDA organic-rice growing area advancing in Dong Phu on the outskirts of Hanoi. Through a five-party partnership originating with the University of Tokyo's Pamci, farmers' income has nearly doubled and the area has expanded to 65 hectares. We interpret it from the perspective of sourcing organic rice to Japan.
