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Post-harvest handling
Drying, sorting, and storage technology
Post-harvest handling– category –
Drying, sorting, and storage technology
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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... -
More durian but fewer Grade A: how should Japanese buyers choose a factory?
While Dak Lak's Chanh Thu increases purchasing to 40,000 tonnes, it uses quality control to prevent a decline in the share of Grade A fruit. From the figures of a surging harvest, we lay out the perspective for Japanese importers handling Vietnamese durian as they reconsider which growing areas and factories to choose. -
The pineapple a 35-degree field discarded: the export variety MD2 changes the growing region's future
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 of Tra My in Quang Nam province: giving up bark sales to take on the world with essential oil
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. -
AIG breaks ground on a second coconut-processing plant in the Mekong Delta—a US$23.9 million investment
The major Vietnamese food-ingredient company Asia Ingredients Group (AIG) held a groundbreaking ceremony on May 11 for its second coconut-processing plant at Long Phuoc Industrial Park in Vinh Long province in the Mekong Delta. The investment is about 630 billion dong (about US$23.9 million / 3.7 billion yen), with operations planned for the first quarter of 2027. A UHT sterilization li... -
Frozen durian leads second-quarter exports—a fresh-coconut protocol also takes effect, with US$10 billion a year in range
According to the latest trends released by Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and related industry bodies, the protocol for frozen-durian exports to China entered its full-operation phase in the second quarter (April–June 2026), and because it overlaps with the harvest peak of Mekong Delta Ri6 durian, Vietnam's frozen-durian exports are expected to accelerate sharply... -
From coffee husks to "cascara tea"—a by-product transformed into four times the value of green beans
Vietnam's Phuc Sinh has commercialized "cascara tea," made by drying and processing the discarded husks of coffee cherries. Exporting it to three European countries at four times the unit price of green beans, it is leading the growth of processed-coffee exports of US$1.78 billion (up 50.4% year on year).
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