37 articles
Agritech
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Replacing Taiwan-dependent orchid seedlings: a Ho Chi Minh City lab's 200,000 a year
ホーチミン市タンニョンフー区で、ドゥオン・ミン・チエン氏が運営する組織培養ラボが、蘭苗を年間20万本のペースで送り出している。胡蝶蘭やカトレアなどの苗を無菌培養から温室育成まで一貫して手がけ、これまで台湾などからの輸入に頼りがちだった蘭苗... -
800 million dong in profit from nighttime LED and tourism: the design of northern dragon fruit
ベトナム北部の山あいにあるトゥエンクアン省イエンフー（旧ハムイエン県）で、赤肉ドラゴンフルーツを育てる農家グループが、年間4,000人を超える来園者を集めている。まとめ役はドー・ヴァン・フン氏。10戸で組む生産グループが約7ヘクタール・約7,000株... -
Turning straw into fertilizer instead of burning it: Ninh Binh's "green rice" cuts costs by 25%
On July 8, 2026, in Nghia Son village, Ninh Binh province in northern Vietnam, a "green rice-farming + rice-straw circulation model," jointly run by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the local company VAG Group, and the provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment, got under way. It cuts production costs by more than 25%, lifts yields by about 20%, and reduces greenhouse gases from the paddies... -
Watering by smartphone, flowering by LED: the wall that northern dragon fruit cannot cross even at a fourfold unit price
An agricultural cooperative in Lap Thach district, Phu Tho province, has broken through the off-season that was a weakness of the north, using automatic irrigation and LED lighting. While achieving 28,000 dong per kg, about four times the southern price, it cannot assemble a monthly export lot of 50 tonnes; we unpack what Japanese fruit-and-vegetable sourcing should learn from this reality. -
Listed Vietnamese BAF breaks ground on a 55-ha closed pig farm: how will procurement quality change
The major listed Vietnamese company BAF has broken ground on a high-tech pig farm in Gia Lai province with a scale of 5,000 sows and 60,000 fattening pigs. We unpack the background to the US$50 million FMO loan and the signals of environmentally conscious livestock farming that Japanese food trading companies and sourcing managers should note. -
In Moc Chau, Son La province, a 35-year-old man runs a Korea- and FAO-backed smart greenhouse—harvesting 18 tonnes of bell peppers for a gross profit of 20 million yen
On the Moc Chau plateau in Son La province, 35-year-old Vu Van Hieu realized greenhouse bell-pepper cultivation using a "next-generation smart farming" project backed by the FAO and the South Korean government. He harvested 18 tonnes from 1,836 square meters, securing a gross profit of about 20 million yen in three months. -
Why a European entrepreneur bet on Vietnam—insect-protein company Entobel builds an 11,000-tonne-a-year production system at Asia's largest plant
Asia's largest insect-protein plant, built in southern Vietnam by Singapore-based Entobel, has entered full operation. With a production capacity of 11,000 tonnes a year, it advances the move away from fishmeal in shrimp- and catfish-farming feed. -
Higher value for Vietnamese pangasius (catfish) by-products accelerates—collagen multiplies value 15 to 25 times, a 'gold mine' of 900,000 tonnes a year
ベトナム産パンガシウス（ナマズ）の副産物70〜90万トンが、酵素加水分解・微生物技術でコラーゲン・魚油・魚皮スナック・機能性ペプチドへと高付加価値化。価値は1.5ドル/kg→20ドル/kgと15〜25倍に。Vinh Hoan等が主導する循環経済モデルで、日本のサプリ・機能性食品市場への原料供給拡大も視野に。 -
Hanoi partners directly with Osaka Prefecture, a local-government model that goes beyond going through JICA—building an innovation hub to accelerate Japan–Vietnam agricultural digitalization
Vu Dai Thang, chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee, met Osaka Prefecture's deputy governor Nobuhiko Yamaguchi in Tokyo on April 29 to discuss comprehensive cooperation on innovation, smart agriculture, and smart cities. A model of direct local-government partnership that goes beyond going through JICA is changing the structure of Japan–Vietnam agricultural cooperation. The Osaka Innovation Hub becomes a benchmark for Hanoi's rollout. -
The front line of Vietnamese precision agriculture 2026—4,000 drones in operation, AI disease detection at 93% accuracy accelerating a productivity revolution
Agricultural drones in operation in Vietnam have surpassed 4,000. AI disease detection has reached 93% accuracy, and in the Mekong Delta's low-emission rice project it has expanded to 354,000 hectares.
