Crops & Agricultural Products

In Quynh Anh, Nghe An province in north-central Vietnam, a shrimp farmer who laid about 5 km of seawater pipeline at his own expense 15 years ago was featured. Hoang Xuan Tin, head of the Loc Thuy Aquaculture Cooperative (HTX Nuoi trong thuy san Loc Thuy)...

The major Japanese seafood company Kyokuyo presented about 500 seafood and processed-food items to about 760 client companies at its own trade show held in Osaka on September 11. At the event, organized by its four branches in Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka, one of the items proposed was fillets of Vietnamese frozen pangasius (ca tra)...

The Hoa Le cooperative delivered about 400 kg of white-flesh dragon fruit to Vietnam Airlines' domestic routes for the first time. The basis the cooperative uses for in-flight supply was test results meeting export standards for markets such as Japan, Australia, and South Korea. We lay this out together with a supply scale said to reach 5,000 tonnes a year.

In Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta, a sealed poultry house running air conditioning holds 60,000 birds. The three farms of Nguyen Duc Lu (known as Bay Lu, 70), in Dao Than ward, reported by state broadcaster VOV on September 24, 2026, run a total area of more than 5,000 square meters with eight people at all times, raising each bird to about 3 k... in 45 days...

Coconut has taken the top spot by item in Vietnam's fresh-produce exports to the US. According to figures from Vietnam's General Department of Customs (Cuc Hai quan) reported by VnExpress on September 22, 2026, coconut exports to the US reached US$105.27 million in January–July 2026, against mango's US$32.3 million and dragon fruit's...

Binh Dien, a major Vietnamese fertilizer company, is giving each Dau Trau-brand fertilizer bag an RFID and QR "digital ID." We interpret the anti-counterfeiting and tracking mechanism from the perspective of Japanese agricultural sourcing.

The major US canned-tuna company Bumble Bee is closing its California plant and consolidating its processing bases. Taking into account its background as part of Taiwan's FCF group, we read the possibility of Vietnam's canning and seafood processing expanding as a recipient, from the perspective of Japanese sourcing.

An advanced shrimp farm in Nghe An province, after suffering several billion dong in damage from a typhoon at the end of 2025, is recovering by investing about 7 billion dong in a year in deeper ponds and environmental monitoring. We read the underlying supply strength Japanese seafood sourcing should look at.

The World Bank is modernizing nine Vietnamese fishing ports for US$155 million. We lay out how climate resilience and post-harvest loss reduction relate to the quality and supply stability of the seafood Japan sources.

CP Vietnam has brought online an aquaculture-feed plant in Ca Mau province with annual output of 125,000 tonnes. We lay out, from the angle of how it serves as material for viewing Japan's sourcing of Vietnamese shrimp, this increase in feed production within the growing region.