Vietnam Agriculture

Vietnam's major fertilizer company PVFCCo (brand name Phu My) presented its annual plan for its own organic fertilizer at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on September 24, 2026. The only actual track record is sales of about 3,000 tonnes in 2025; the 30,000 tonnes for 2026 is a target, and the 60,000, 120,000, and 150,000 tonnes from 2027 onward are sup...

On September 22, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet Tepbac ran a column dealing solely with the psychology of shrimp farmers. The headline was "Throughout a crop, your mind never leaves the pond." It was placed not in the news pages but in an opinion column called "Goc nhin (Perspective)," signed by Phong. Neither the unit price nor the export value appears...

The Hoa Le cooperative delivered about 400 kg of white-flesh dragon fruit to Vietnam Airlines' domestic routes for the first time. The basis the cooperative uses for in-flight supply was test results meeting export standards for markets such as Japan, Australia, and South Korea. We lay this out together with a supply scale said to reach 5,000 tonnes a year.

A Haiphong cooperative ships off-season lotus, raising the unit price per stem to about twice the in-season rate. From a high-value model earning 500–700 million dong a year from lotus alone, we lay out a perspective on year-round sourcing for Japan.

Son La farmers have begun exploring direct smartphone sales of their produce. Using verified distribution data from another region, Hanoi, as a clue, we examine what Japanese food buyers can gain from growing areas, through to the items to check in negotiations.

In Da Lat, Lam Dong, Vietnam, the pharmaceutical company Ladophar produces artichokes in partnership with farmers, and we interpret, from the perspective of Japanese sourcing and ingredient development, its move to sort the leaves, buds, stems, and roots into tea, extracts, and foods and buy them to pharmaceutical specifications.

A 56-year-old farmer in Dak Lak province who switched from coffee to durian has an annual income of US$76,000. We examine the real picture of the switch driven by Chinese demand, and the implications Japanese buyers should read now.

A twenty-something in Thanh Hoa province came ashore and revived, through D2C, a fish sauce aged 2–4 years in 240 ceramic jars. We examine its implications for Japanese seasoning and OEM sourcing.

Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam put into effect Resolution No. 24 (Nghi quyet 24/2026/NQ-HDND) on August 22, 2026, injecting public funds into building up medicinal-plant growing areas. Linking seedling production, concentrated cultivation, cultivation under the forest, development of raw-material zones, and storage and processing into a single support measure, per project...

In shrimp-export data released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on August 24, July's month-on-month growth diverged widely by market. While China, the cumulative leader, held 33.5% of the total, Australia grew the most in July at 43.9% year on year, while South Korea by contrast sank 14.6%. The ranking by value itself...