Technology & Innovation

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...

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...

A farmer in Bac Ninh province introduced automatic feeding and aeration to grass-carp farming, reaching 2.1 kg per fish, a yield of 28.5 tonnes/ha, and 20% higher profit in eight months. We interpret where Vietnam's freshwater-fish DX stands and its implications for Japanese sourcing.

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.

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.

Le Van Phuong, a former fisherman in Thanh Hoa province, produces 50–70 tonnes of whiteleg shrimp a year with a three-stage closed-recirculation system across 5 hectares and 38 ponds. From a site with a net profit of 5 billion dong, we explain the real picture of the advancement of Vietnamese shrimp that Japanese importers should read.

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.

Can Tho, Vietnam, is abandoning the Queen variety, degraded by extreme heat, and switching to the disease- and heat-resistant MD2. We interpret its integrated network from cultivation to processing and the implications for Japanese frozen- and canned-raw-material sourcing.

The cinnamon-growing area of Tra My in Quang Nam province in central Vietnam is moving away from exporting raw bark toward deeper processing into essential oils, cosmetics, and health foods. We read the value-adding strategy of the world's largest cinnamon exporter from a Japanese buyer's perspective.

DT Group in Khanh Hoa province has obtained the Vietnamese organic standard TCVN 11041 for sea grapes. We examine production on the order of 300 tonnes a year and its impact on Japanese imports and OEM.