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Growing regions & local information
Agricultural conditions across Vietnam
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Agricultural conditions across Vietnam
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A chili that sells out as soon as it is picked: contract farming opens up Vietnamese spice raw materials
Buyers appear the moment it is picked in the field—such a chili-growing area is developing on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. In the An Nhon Tay area, formerly called Cu Chi district, farmers who switched the small hot-pepper-type chili "ot chi thien" to contract farming with a company are no longer tossed around by wild price swings... -
A specialty fish fattens up in a Nghe An reservoir: inland waters as a hidden sourcing gem
When they hear "Vietnamese seafood," many Japanese buyers picture Mekong Delta shrimp and pangasius, or marine aquaculture in the south-central region. But this time, a small piece of news from a reservoir in the mountains of Nghe An province lights up a block missing from that map. In the sea... -
Tea whose price is set by elevation: Tuyen Quang's snow tea gets moving
In the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, aged native-variety tea is beginning to be sold as the opposite of "cheap mass-produced tea." The Shan Tuyet snow tea handled by a processing workshop in Tan Lap hamlet, Vinh Thuy commune, Tuyen Quang province, circulates in small quantities in a price band of 6 million dong per kilo, and its processing... -
Cornfields turn to Arabica—the Son La highlands open a sourcing destination for beans and fruit
The steep slopes of Son La province in northwestern Vietnam are changing from fields of maize and cassava into a growing area for coffee and fruit trees. The Vietnamese newspaper Dan Viet took up the transformation of the Na San plateau in Chieng Mung district, formerly Mai Son district, reporting how the cultivation value of the sloped land has jumped... -
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,"... -
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... -
180 booths, 400 Vietnamese specialties: can the Da Nang agriculture fair become a procurement window?
ベトナム中部ダナンで開かれた地域農産物の見本市に、5日間で180のブースと400点を超える特産品が並び、来場者への売上は約50億ドン（1万ドン≒60円換算で約3,000万円）に達した。単発の即売イベントに見えるが、日本の食品バイヤーや土産物の仕入れ担当に... -
Selling the mist at 1,600 m: the day the Dao people escaped poverty with native orchids
ベトナム北部ラオカイ省の高地で、少数民族ザオ族の農家が地生ラン（ベトナム語でđịa lan、日本のシンビジウムに近い東洋ランの仲間）を換金作物に育て、長く抜け出せなかった貧困から離れつつある。舞台は標高1,500〜1,600メートル、旧サパ地区に属するタ... -
Shrimp heads sweeten the watermelon: 30 years of sandy-soil circular farming on Co To Island
On the outlying island of Co To in Quang Ninh province in northern Vietnam, there is a family that has spent 30 years practicing a method of turning shrimp heads into compost and returning it to the sandy seaside watermelon fields. Reported on July 3, 2026, by Nong nghiep Moi truong, a specialist paper affiliated with Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the fields draw tourists who visit the island... -
The day the off-season disappears: the impact of a new longan variety where flowers and fruit coexist
On a single tree, flowers and fruit awaiting harvest hang at the same time. On a sandbar in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, such a new variety of longan has begun to bear fruit. Its name is "Long Phung Chau." It fruits about two years after planting, can be harvested almost year-round, and sells at 100,000 dong per kilo (about...
