Exports to Japan

Tahara, an agricultural attache at the Japanese Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City, stated clearly that there is demand for Vietnamese products meeting environmental and green standards. For Vietnamese products, which rose to the fourth-largest supplier country in 2025, we interpret by item the traceability and environmental proof that will be asked for next.

Black pepper for the EU faces a wall of 565 pesticide-residue items. The Hoang Nguyen cooperative in Lam Dong has obtained organic (USDA, EU, JAS) certification on 195.6 of its 986 hectares and exports from them. A JAS-compliant growing region becomes, for Japanese sourcing, a raw material that does not get stopped at inspection.

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 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.

Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has set out a policy to remove "the establishment of a cooperative" from the conditions for obtaining an export growing-area code (ma so vung trong). Reported by Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 23 as a statement by Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep, the administrative procedure...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2026年上半期、ベトナム水産の最大市場が米国から中国へ移った。日本は3位。対中輸出が約40%増で首位に立った背景を押さえ、量で競わず選ばれ続けるための日本の調達戦略を読み解く。