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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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Pineapple in the understory of acacia: Quang Ngai earns from poor land in layers
A Quang Ngai farmer grows pineapple under an acacia forest, cutting irrigation costs. We examine the implications for Japan's hilly and intermediate areas and for climate adaptation. -
VietFish 2026 moves to business meetings with farm visits, opening a sourcing opportunity for Japan
VietFish 2026, with 568 booths, introduced a buyer-invitation system for the first time. We read what it means for Japanese buyers who want to source Vietnamese seafood amid the headwind of US tariffs. -
Lao Cai enacts a support ordinance for medicinal plants, subsidizing up to 5 billion dong per project from seedlings to processing
Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam put into effect Resolution No. 24 (Nghi quyet 24/2026/NQ-HDND) on August 22, 2026, injecting public funds into building up medicinal-plant growing areas. Linking seedling production, concentrated cultivation, cultivation under the forest, development of raw-material zones, and storage and processing into a single support measure, per project... -
US cherries fetch up to 4,500 yen/kg in Vietnam; imports rise 9.3% despite frost damage
US cherries carried a price of up to 800,000 dong per kilo—about 4,500 yen in Japanese currency—on Vietnamese shelves. After spring frost damage that struck Washington State cut this season's production by 23% and shipping costs were added on top, red cherries are 80–90% higher than the previous year and yellow cherries up to 95% higher. Even so, 2026... -
The Mekong Rice Research Institute unveils wild-rice-derived ND1 and ND2, allocating them to processing and export use
The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute (Vien lua DBSCL) under Can Tho University has announced distribution approval for two new varieties, "Nong Dan 1 (ND1)" and "Nong Dan 2 (ND2)," bred from wild-rice lines as parents. The paper Nong nghiep va Moi truong reported this on August 19. The aim is not to increase table-rice output but rice... -
Son La's custard apples weigh 1.3 kg each, sell out at the field, and bring 1.5 billion dong in profit on 4 hectares
In Mai Son district, Son La province in northwestern Vietnam, large custard apples that grow to 0.8–1.3 kg each have been surrounded by buyers at the field from the first day of harvest, and orders keep coming without a break. Slopes that were once self-sufficiency land for corn and cassava, through replanting with Thai, Taiwanese, and Sau Rieng varieties and... -
Japan dispatches experts for an on-site fruit-fly test on pomelo, and the opening to Japan gets moving
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE) is moving ahead with technical negotiations to open new export destinations for pomelo and passion fruit. As part of this, Japan has sent its own experts to Vietnam to supervise large-scale on-site trials of the fruit flies that attack pomelo. To settle the control method... -
Quang Tri's Arabica: The Gap Between 26,000 Dong per kg of Green Beans and 280,000 Dong for the Finished Product
In Huong Phung, Quang Tri Province in central Vietnam, the field of Le Trang, who grows Arabica on one hectare, produced about 20 tonnes of fresh cherries in 2025. The average unit price at which he hands them to processors is 26,000 dong per kg (about 149 yen). The same beans ultimately, in specialty... -
Vietnamese tropical fruit opens the Turkish market: a bid for export diversification with coconut and frozen goods
Vietnam's tropical fruits have set Turkey as their next sales channel. In a local survey released on August 11, 2026, by the Vietnam Trade Office in Turkey, fresh coconut, dragon fruit, mango, and durian, along with frozen fruit and IQF (individual quick-frozen) products, are seen as promising items for which Turkey has little room to produce... -
With 60 hectares of certified cultivation in Can Tho, the buying price of thanh nhan longan doubles the market rate
The cooperative HTX Trang Ti Garden in Can Tho City, Vietnam, grows the premium longan "thanh nhan" on about 60 hectares, operating 20 hectares under GlobalGAP and 30 hectares under VietGAP. By staggering the season to shift flowering to July–October, it eliminates the harvest trough, and the buying price from buyers contracted with the cooperative...
