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Crops & Agricultural Products
Information on Vietnam's main crops and agricultural products
Crops & Agricultural Products– category –
Information on Vietnam's main crops and agricultural products
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Undaunted by failure, net melon in the highlands: a northern greenhouse farmer earning 2.5 billion dong a year
In Tuyen Quang province in northern Vietnam, a farmer in a cool, high-elevation village switched to greenhouse cultivation of net melon and grapes, and the family earns sales of about 2.5 billion dong (about 14.7 million yen) a year. VietnamNet reported this on August 10, 2026. On mountain land once centered on rice and corn, high value-add... -
Pineapple, bamboo rat, and pigeon on poor hills: the mixed farming of a Da Nang farmer
On the hills of Phu Thuan commune, Da Nang City (formerly Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province), more farmers are earning without abandoning poor land. Layering specialty livestock such as bamboo rats and pigeons on top of intercropped pineapple, a single household turns over several hundred million dong a year. For procurement managers and producers interested in mixed farming, this... -
Turning a hill of scrubby trees into a guava orchard: 500 million dong a year supported by a Da Nang extension worker
In Que Son district, Da Nang city in central Vietnam, a hill of scrubland that had been logged bare has been reborn as an orchard. In 2023, Truong Van Arinh, who leads the local agricultural cooperative "HTX Nong nghiep Rung Bao," dug up a 3-hectare plot of poor acacia (keo) and planted the Taiwanese-type pear guava "oi le... -
26 households bet on mountain medicinal herbs across 13 hectares: Tuyen Quang's purple sa nhan
In Thuong Nong commune, Tuyen Quang province in northern Vietnam, 26 households switched a combined 13 hectares of fields to the medicinal crop "sa nhan tim (purple sa nhan)." Funded by production support from a national target program allocated to the socio-economic development of ethnic-minority and mountainous areas, seedlings and cultivation tech... -
Exports up 30% yet wholesale prices halve in China: the paradox of Vietnamese durian and market diversification
Vietnam's durian exports reached about US$1.8 billion in January–July 2026 (roughly 270 billion yen, a rough estimate at about 150 yen to 1 USD), some 30% above the same period a year earlier. Even as volume grows, wholesale prices at the Chinese border have fallen to nearly half for some varieties. This paradox, in which the unit price sinks the more volume rises, is, toward China... -
Australian and NZ fruit moves into Vietnam's everyday shopping: why it surged in the first half, and the homework it sets for Japan
Australian and New Zealand fruit is gaining at Vietnamese retail shelves. In the first half of 2026, import value from Australia was US$102.8 million (about 15.4 billion yen), up 55.7% year on year, and from New Zealand US$78.04 million (about 11.7 billion yen), up 20.4%. Kiwifruit, apples, grapes... -
Two Japanese companies take interest in Vietnamese coffee: the bean's history, questioned at a Tokyo meeting
At "CAFERES JAPAN 2026," an exhibition for foodservice and cafes held in Tokyo, two Japanese roasting companies stopped at the joint booth of Ho Chi Minh City's Green Economy Cooperative and Total Feeling Specialty Coffee. The specialty-coffee roaster Tokyo Coffee, and the UCC Group's U... -
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. -
Quitting a city job to return to farming in Hue: branding ornamental flowering trees with 7,000 yellow apricot trees
In the Quang Dien area on the outskirts of Hue City in central Vietnam, Nguyen Phi Truong grows nearly 10,000 of the Hue yellow apricot "hoang mai" on about 5,000 square meters. He quit his job in the city and returned to his hometown in 2018, and for Tet (the Lunar New Year) the indispensable... -
A man who self-taught the cultivation of an over-harvested medicinal herb and grew it into a 40-hectare contract-farming area
On Hon Heo mountain in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a farmer self-taught the artificial cultivation of "xao tam phan," a native medicinal plant that had once nearly been harvested to extinction, and built it up into a growing area of more than 40 hectares of contract cultivation. The central figure is the head of Ba Ninh Company, and the province's medicinal plant...
