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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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4,000 bee colonies earn their keep under the fruit trees: triple cropping at a pesticide-free mango orchard
At an orchard in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a tiny bee just a few millimeters long has become a source of income exceeding one billion dong a year. At the foot of a vast orchard planted with mango and coconut, 4,000 colonies of stingless bees are lined up in hives, in a system that handles pollination and honey harvesting at the same time. The farm... -
What 17,000 cacao seedlings tell us: Dak Lak's "control the upstream" confectionery sourcing
Cacao beans, the raw material for chocolate, come about 70% of world supply from just two countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. With those two major producing regions cutting output due to erratic weather and disease, international cacao prices have stayed stuck in a historically high range. At a moment when procurement managers are unanimous in saying they "want to diversify growing regions,"... -
A law graduate earns 1.18 million yen a day from sea snails, shipping herb-prepared snails to South Korea
A cheap freshwater snail that children pick up at the edge of the rice fields is being transformed into an herb-prepared processed product and shipped to South Korea. What Nguyen Huu Nhon (34), a farmer in Lam Dong province in southern Vietnam, has built is not merely a farming business. A young man who graduated from law school takes a snail worth next to nothing for raw consumption and processes it... -
Miyazaki mango bears fruit on the outskirts of Saigon: can the Japanese brand be protected?
In a greenhouse on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, red-ripened Miyazaki mango bore fruit from Vietnamese soil. It was grown by Nguyen Minh Nhan, who runs Stellar Orchard. The fruit first harvested from about 1,500 four-year-old trees goes for 400,000 dong... -
The day Vietnamese tilapia becomes the star of conveyor-belt sushi: Can Tho's export strategy
Can Tho city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta has set out a plan to develop tilapia (ca ro phi in Vietnamese, a white-fleshed freshwater fish) into a strategic export species. Starting from a farming area of 604 hectares at the end of 2025, the city's Department of Agriculture and Environment has set a goal of expanding the growing area to 96,500 hectares of potentially suitable land, with the United States as the main... -
The era of Japan merely buying is ending; Japan and Vietnam enter a stage of circulating raw material to each other in seafood
ベトナムの水産業と日本の取引が、「売る・買う」の一方通行から抜け出しつつある。ベトナム産のエビやイカを日本が年15〜17億ドル分買い続ける一方で、ベトナム側も日本産のホタテやブリを原料として仕入れ、自国の工場で加工し直す動きが広がっている。... -
Guavas on poor sandy soil bring in 3.6 billion dong a year: a Dak Lak farmer's "grow it and sell it" blueprint
In Ea Sup, Dak Lak province in Vietnam's Central Highlands, on poor sandy soil that dries white in the dry season, the woman farmer Nguyen Thi Bich earns annual sales of 3.6 ty dong (3.6 billion dong, about 20.9 million yen at roughly 58 yen per 10,000 dong) from two hectares of guava and pomelo... -
Live lobster nears US$1 billion: how China changed the way Vietnamese seafood earns
ベトナムの活ロブスターが、輸出額で10億ドル品目の一歩手前まで来ている。押し上げているのは中国の旺盛な需要だ。2025年の輸出は総額8億5,800万ドル（1ドル155円換算で約1,330億円）、その大半が中国向けで、殻付きのまま「生きたまま」運ばれていく。日... -
100 Chinese companies came to buy Vietnamese durian—how does Japanese sourcing move?
ベトナム産ドリアンの調達現場に、これまでとは違う空気が流れ始めた。2026年7月14日、ホーチミン市で開かれた第2回アジアドリアン会議には約500人が集まり、そのうち中国からのバイヤーだけで100社を超えた。果物専門チェーンのPagoda（百果園）、Xianfen... -
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...
