76 articles
Technology & Innovation
Agricultural technology and agritech information
Technology & Innovation– category –
Agricultural technology and agritech information
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A parent and child who established artificial breeding over 20 years; the barrier of 500,000 fish a month lies in the feed
A father and son in the Mekong Delta have established the artificial breeding of marble goby. With rotifer feeding, larval survival is 50 to 60%, and they ship 200,000 to 300,000 fish a month. The remaining barrier is the switch from live feed to formulated feed. -
Yanmar acquires Norway's AKVA for 5.9 billion kroner, changing the supplier of Vietnam's fish cages
Yanmar will acquire all shares of the major Norwegian aquaculture-equipment company AKVA group at 161 kroner per share, for a total of about 5.9 billion kroner. About 92% of shareholders have already committed to tender. We lay out, from a procurement-practice standpoint, what it means for the supplier of the cages and feeding equipment used in Vietnam's marine aquaculture to change. -
One Roll of Rice Straw Becomes 50 Boxes of Firelighter; Where Should Japan's Raw-Material Sourcing Look?
A workshop that turns rice straw—once burned in the fields after harvest—into solid firelighter and ships it to the US and Canada via Amazon is in Thanh Hoa Province in north-central Vietnam. A video report distributed on September 25, 2026, by Nông nghiệp và Môi trường, the organ paper of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, reported this... -
A climate-controlled poultry house in Dong Thap reaches 3 kg in 45 days, running 60,000 birds with eight people
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... -
An RFID ID on fertilizer bags: Binh Dien pilots anti-counterfeiting
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. -
Nghe An shrimp farming hit by a typhoon: the site rebuilt with 2 billion dong
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. -
Major Vietnamese sugar producer AgriS opens a commercialization research base in Singapore
AgriS, one of Vietnam's largest sugar producers, opened a global innovation base in Singapore on September 16. We consider its aim of linking research with international markets, and the changes Japanese food buyers should read. -
Seven proposals for Bac Lieu's shrimp-farming zone, idle for nine years: will it benefit Japanese sourcing?
Seven investment proposals have come in for Bac Lieu's advanced shrimp-farming zone (418 hectares), which had sat almost idle for nine years. Advanced technologies such as RAS and disease-free seed stock line up. We read the signs of a restart from the standpoint of Japanese shrimp sourcing. -
Can pineapple top-dressing be cut 25%? A Ninh Binh Phosphate Fertilizer demonstration in Nghe An
Ninh Binh Phosphate Fertilizer cut top-dressing by 25%, from 1.2 to 0.9 tonnes/ha, in a Queen-variety pineapple field in Nghe An province. We read the cost and sustainability of processed-pineapple raw material from a Japanese sourcing perspective. -
Cau Dat's organic Arabica moves to deeper processing: what will Japanese roasters source?
The cooperative Song Vu in Cau Dat, Da Lat, is breaking away from reliance on green beans and competing on quality through organic conversion and deeper processing. We lay out the points Japanese specialty roasters will want to check.
