Growing regions & local information

A farmer in Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta chose to tear out paddy fields and fruit trees and plant only areca (betel nut, cau in Vietnamese), and in 2025 made a profit of more than one billion dong (about 6 million yen, at roughly 60 yen to 10,000 dong) from the sale of fresh fruit alone. The Vietnamese paper Thanh Nien, on July 3, 2026...

In Bac Ninh province in northern Vietnam, a farmer who raises melons by "feeding" them fermented chicken eggs keeps selling out, the local paper Dan Viet reported on July 5, 2026. The central figure is Vu Chi Duc, who switched over from being a woodworker who had held a chisel and plane for about ten years. Meeting Japanese standards...

In Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the trial cultivation of a coconut called "dua dua" (dua dua), which gives off the sweet aroma of pandan leaf the moment it is split open, is beginning to take shape. A trial farm under the province's agricultural extension center has planted more than 300 trees on about 2.7 hectares, with 70 to 100 fruits per tree per year and, per fruit, 250...

What comes to mind at the words "Vietnamese coffee" is probably the mass-produced Robusta that underpins canned and instant coffee. Outside that conventional image, Arabica farmers in the mountains of Quang Tri province in central Vietnam are deliberately switching to a cultivation that "returns forest" to the field. A Vietnamese agriculture-specialist med...

In Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, a 31-year-old who abandoned an engineering job in Ho Chi Minh City is getting "farming that only works on salt-damaged land" off the ground. What Lam Quoc Nhut grows is a salt-tolerant plant that grows wild on the embankments of shrimp ponds. Processed products such as the "plant salt" extracted from it...

Sturgeon raised in the Krong No River in Lam Dong province. We interpret, from a Japanese sourcing perspective, how this cold-water-fish producing area—which grew about 57-fold from 2007 to 2023 to become sixth in the world—makes money, and the real picture of a kind of farming that protects the forest and water sources.

About 210 ha of offshore aquaculture has started in the Co To special zone of Quang Ninh province. We unpack this project, which takes on the industrial farming of squid that had relied almost entirely on wild catch, from the perspective of Japanese seafood sourcing.

A former electrician who lost 100 million dong in eel farming has switched to frog farming in 70 tanks on 1,500 square meters in Nghe An province. We unpack the design that cycles every four months, along with the market price of Vietnamese edible frogs and the possibility of sourcing for Japan.

A woman farmer in Ha Tinh province in central Vietnam grows Korean melon three crops a year in a 500 m2 greenhouse. We interpret the real picture of protected horticulture that earns through turnover, from the perspective of Japanese imports and growing-area partnerships.

A low-emission cacao demonstration of 23 farms and 18.5 hectares has begun in Dak Lak province, Vietnam. We interpret, from the perspective of Japanese chocolate-ingredient sourcing, this move to target Europe, the US, and Japan through ESG and integrated processing in the growing region.