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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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Lam Dong's pepper-growing region: even at high prices, it does not return to heavy chemical use, shifting to soil-and-root cultivation
When pepper prices are high, growing regions tend to increase fertilizer and pesticides to chase higher output. Yet in Lam Dong province, Vietnam's largest pepper-growing region, the opposite move is appearing. What Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) reported in a piece dated July 26, 2026 was that "if you want to make pepper healthy, first make the soil healthy... -
A Lam Dong farmer replants an aging Robusta garden with the dwarf variety Xanh lun over three years
Mai Hong Quan, a farmer in Nam Nung, Lam Dong province, is spending three years replanting an aging coffee garden with the dwarf variety "Xanh lun (blue dwarf type)." Those around him recommended high-yielding varieties, but he did not rush, moving to a full switch only after judging the growth of trees he had planted on a trial basis. Cof... -
A Hue farmer converts low-lying poor paddy to lotus, reaching 3-5 times rice cropping and an annual income of JPY 5.9 million
A farmer in Hue who switched poorly drained, low-lying bad fields to lotus (sen) is earning far more than from rice. Le Thi Hoai Uyen of Phu Bai expanded lotus planting from 2 ha to more than 15 ha, and the family's annual income has reached about one billion dong (about 5.9 million yen at roughly 170 dong to the yen). What would not bear fruit with rice... -
A woman farmer in her 70s in Hanoi's Noi Bai: 2 billion dong in annual sales from earthworm compost and a 3-star OCOP
In a corner of Noi Bai, Hanoi, a female farmer in her 70s is using earthworms (giun que) to restore poor land into fields where crops will grow. She runs GHT Farm. Having enlisted in 1971 and spent more than 30 years in the military before returning to farming, she feeds livestock manure to earthworms to turn it into compost, and uses that compost to grow crops again... -
Vietnam Clean Seafood makes its first shipment of sashimi-grade tilapia fillets to Japan
Vietnamese tilapia has been shipped for the first time as fillets for Japanese sushi and sashimi. It was handled by Vietnam Clean Seafood Corporation of Can Tho city. The company's CEO, Vo Van Phuc, completed the first shipment of value-added fillets to Japan in July 2026, and in terms of quality and taste, from Japanese customers... -
Ha Tinh's Phu Ha cooperative establishes habanero production: a rare chili at 170,000 dong per kg
The Phu Ha cooperative in Thuan Loc village, Ha Tinh province, has established production of the Mexican-origin super-hot chili habanero on 0.7 hectares and sells it at about 170,000 VND/kg, several times the price of ordinary chili. According to a report carried by the local agriculture magazine Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 26, 2026, it is the first commercial cultivation in the north-central region... -
A Noi Bai farmer turns a thin paddy into a greenhouse, localizing Korean grapes with a 1 billion dong investment
Near Noi Bai outside Hanoi, a farmer who replaced poor, barren paddy fields with greenhouses to grow a white-type grape of Korean origin called "milk grape" is achieving good results. According to a report carried by the local agricultural journal Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 25, 2026, Ta Quoc, born in 1986... -
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... -
Dien Bien opens up Arabica and macadamia: the northwest as a second sourcing destination
ソンラやダクラクへの一極集中を避けたい日本のコーヒー・ナッツバイヤーへ。北西部ディエンビエン省がアラビカとマカダミアを軸に描く輸出産地構想を、面積・計画・調達視点で読み解く。 -
Turning acid soil where rice won't grow into a guava orchard: a VietGAP conversion near Ho Chi Minh City
A farmer near Ho Chi Minh City who turned paddy of acid-sulfate soil, where rice would not grow, into a VietGAP-certified, OCOP three-star guava orchard. We read a production model with annual sales of several hundred million dong, and the sourcing route for Vietnamese guava that Japanese buyers should keep in mind.
