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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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Kona Bay's shrimp seed Balance Pro: upstream quality improvement shapes shrimp supply to Japan
The major seed company Kona Bay has introduced its non-ablation line Balance Pro in Vietnam. We lay out the facts—SPF, a 70–80% survival rate, and a field trial in Phan Rang—and explain how seed improvement works for the stability of shrimp supply to Japan. -
Seaweed rafts in shrimp ponds: combining water purification with 60 million dong a year in side income
A low-carbon model that floats 40–50 seaweed rafts in Vietnamese shrimp ponds, taking in nitrogen to improve water quality while earning 50–60 million dong a year in side income. We interpret the mechanism that lowers reliance on antibiotics and its meaning for ESG sourcing to Japan. -
On salt-damaged land in Can Tho, 180 households take up shrimp-rice farming, making it a side-income source across 250 hectares
In the Luong Tam area of Can Tho City, 180 households and 250 hectares are taking up tom-lua (shrimp-rice farming) using paddy fields. We interpret this low-input model that turns salt-damaged land into a resource, and its meaning for Japanese premium sourcing. -
A shrimp cooperative in northern Quang Ninh: 7–9 turnovers a year and 90-day shipping across 8 ha and 12 ponds
A shrimp cooperative in Cam Pha, Quang Ninh province, has demonstrated 7 to 9 cycles a year and 90-day shipment through greenhouse farming across 12 ponds on 8 ha. We unpack what it means for a northern growing area to join the Mekong-Delta-dominated sourcing of shrimp for Japan. -
A Ca Mau shrimp farmer turns a profit three crops in a row with low-density TLSS—about 18 million yen a year
A shrimp farmer in Ca Mau province achieved three consecutive profitable crops with a low-density, water-treatment-focused TLSS model, reaching about 3 billion dong (about 18 million yen) a year. We interpret a yardstick for stable supply that Japanese shrimp sourcing should look at. -
China's frozen-squid exports to the EU down 49.4% in the first half, share halved from 28.1% to 14.2%
Chinese frozen squid is rapidly losing its presence in the EU market. According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on July 28, China's frozen-squid exports to the EU in the first half of 2026 came to only 19,690 tonnes, down 49.4% from the same period a year earlier. Of the EU's frozen-squid imports, China's... -
Giant freshwater prawns co-cultured in Thanh Hoa's paddies raise the value of the same land 1.5–3 times
Farming that releases giant freshwater prawns (tom cang xanh) into planted rice fields is pushing up the value of the same land several times over in Truong Van, Thanh Hoa province. Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 24, 2026 reported this organic co-culture of rice plus large freshwater prawns. Grown without pesticides... -
Lam Dong province permits a research export of 23 potato seed varieties, 27,952 seeds, to India
The export that Lam Dong province approved in July was not harvested potatoes but "seed." According to Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 25, 2026, the province's Department of Agriculture and Environment granted its subordinate "Potato, Vegetable and Flower Research Center" 23 varieties of potato seed, totaling 27,95... -
Nghe An province approves a 618-hectare high-tech forestry zone—integrating large-diameter timber with understory medicinal plants
Vietnam's forestry has long been structured around churning out cheap, thin trees for chips in large quantities. A plan to restructure that is getting under way in the north-central region. According to Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 27, 2026, Nghe An province, with a "North-Central High-Tech Forestry Application Zone" at its core, grows thick... -
A Thanh Hoa farmer switches to the edible night-scented flower (hoa thien ly), 12 ha pesticide-free under VietGAP
Across the Con Chinh area of Yen Binh district, Thanh Hoa province, paddy fields and sugarcane fields are being replaced by fields of the edible flower "night-blooming flower" (Vietnamese name hoa thien ly, Tonkin jasmine). According to a report carried by the local agricultural journal Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 28, 2026, in Con Chinh village about 30 ha...
