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Livestock & fisheries
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A village wiped out by African swine fever: antibiotic-free mosquito-net pig farming gets underway in Quang Tri
In Binh Thu village, Quang Tri province, where African swine fever (ASF) wiped out almost all the village's pigs, antibiotic-free organic raising has begun using "mosquito-net pig farming," in which netting is draped around the pigsties. According to a report carried by the local agricultural journal Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 25, 2026, the major agricultural-input company Que Lam... -
Wetland becomes a sensor-equipped poultry house: a company buys the entire 25,000 birds of a veteran
A rundown wetland on the outskirts of Haiphong has become a poultry house whose temperature and humidity are watched by smartphone. The free-range-chicken farm a veteran opened on his own holds 25,000 birds, and a partner company drives trucks to the site to buy the entire flock. Though this case looks like one person's comeback story, for Japanese meat sourc... -
Sixty thousand birds without water: a 1992-born duck operation that got past power outages
Ducks usually bring to mind flocks on ponds and waterways, but in Nghe An province in central Vietnam, a farmer has emerged who runs 60,000 birds without using any open water at all. It is operated by Dinh No Phu Quy, born in 1992. The shed-raised duck business he started in 2021, after deducting expenses, earns a year... -
Porcupines with 12 yen a day in feed costs net 3 million yen a year: Dong Nai's reverse calculation
ベトナム南部ドンナイ省の農家が、豚でも鶏でもなくヤマアラシ（ベトナム語で nhím）の養殖で年に純益5億ドン、日本円にしておよそ300万円を稼ぎ出している。飼料は市場で出た野菜くずや果物、豆腐かすが中心で、1頭あたりのエサ代は1日およそ2,000ドン——1... -
A former party secretary makes a comeback with Boer goats, earning a living turning over 200 head a year on home-grown feed
ベトナム北部トゥエンクアン省ソンズオン県フールオン社で、元党委書記のライ・テ・トゥエン氏（1966年生まれ）が、定年を待たずに退職してヤギ舎の主になった。2025年、行政機構の再編に伴う早期退職制度（政令178号）を使って役職を離れ、南アフリカ原産... -
About 12 billion yen on a high-rise pig house: BAF takes on the fortification of pig farming in Hung Yen
7月9日、ベトナム北部フンイエン省の人民委員会が、上場企業BAFベトナム農業（HoSE上場・ティッカーBAF）から届いた一つの投資提案を審議した。内容は、豚を「高層ビル」で飼う多層式の養豚団地に、廃棄物を資源に回す循環農業を組み合わせるというもの。... -
Toward the nation's largest through provincial merger: Khanh Hoa's goats and sheep take on Halal
Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam has begun moving a plan to raise goats and sheep into "halal-standard meat products." On July 2, 2026, the province's livestock and veterinary authorities held a sheep breeding-and-rearing training session in Trung Khanh Vinh village, covering everything from developing model farms to building a halal-compliant slaughtering and processing system... -
Feed giant Greenfeed trades pigs online, breaking dependence on middlemen
Greenfeed, Vietnam's fourth-largest feed and pig-farming company, has launched G-Link, an online trading platform for market hogs. We interpret how it will change live-animal trading left to market prices, through to its implications for Japanese meat sourcing. -
The pond where grass carp got "promoted": how Bac Ninh's freshwater-fish DX makes money
A farmer in Bac Ninh province introduced automatic feeding and aeration to grass-carp farming, reaching 2.1 kg per fish, a yield of 28.5 tonnes/ha, and 20% higher profit in eight months. We interpret where Vietnam's freshwater-fish DX stands and its implications for Japanese sourcing. -
An electrician rebuilds through frog farming; Nghe An province's 70 tanks show the design of small-scale livestock
A former electrician who lost 100 million dong in eel farming has switched to frog farming in 70 tanks on 1,500 square meters in Nghe An province. We unpack the design that cycles every four months, along with the market price of Vietnamese edible frogs and the possibility of sourcing for Japan.
