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Vietnam Agriculture
Vietnam Agriculture– category –
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Shrimp king Minh Phu moves into 108 ha of mitten crab, targeting a substitute for Shanghai hairy crab
ベトナムのエビ輸出最大手ミンフー(Minh Phu)の子会社が、エビではなく「川ガニ」の養殖に本腰を入れている。フンイエン省ナムクオン地区で、ミンフー・インターナショナル(MICFOOD)が108ヘクタールの水域を使い、cà ra(カー・ラー)と呼ばれる淡水性のカニ... -
Juveniles still rely on the sea: the 30-year wall facing a 63-year-old Vietnamese tackling giant mottled eel farming
ベトナム中部・ザライ省（旧ビンディン省）のチャウチュック潟で、63歳の農家ヴォー・トゥアン・トゥー氏が育てる魚が地元メディアで注目を集めている。日本でオオウナギと呼ばれる大型のウナギ（ベトナム名カーチン）を、約1万m²の池で年4〜5トン出荷し、... -
A second irradiation technology for the US; Vietnam's Toan Phat breaks down the wall to fruit exports
米国農務省の動植物検疫局（APHIS）が7月上旬、ベトナム・タイニン省のトアンファット照射工場（TPI）に対し、ガンマ線とX線という2つの照射技術を並行して運用する認可を与えた。対米輸出向けの果実照射施設が2技術を同時に使えるのはベトナムで初めてで... -
Top shrimp company Minh Phu makes its move: a new Ca Mau plant that changes Japanese procurement
On June 28, 2026, in Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the major shrimp processor Minh Phu Group's new plant, the "Minh Phu Khanh An Seafood Processing Plant," officially came online. The investment is about 1.5 trillion dong (about US$57 million, about 8.8 billion yen; at the time of writing, roughly 155 yen to the dollar and about 60 yen to 10,000 dong... -
Kura Sushi's white fish was catfish — how pangasius became a Japanese staple
The white-fish topping gliding along the conveyor-belt sushi lane turns out to be catfish raised in the Mekong Delta. On July 5, 2026, the Vietnamese fisheries trade magazine Vietfish Magazine reported that Vietnamese pangasius (basa) has penetrated Japan's white-fish consumption to the point of ranking second only to Alaska pollock fillets. Processed food... -
10,000 tonnes of EUDR-compliant rubber: VRG's sourcing network that "turns regulation into opportunity"
The Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) sold about 10,000 tonnes of natural rubber compliant with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) from 2025 through the first half of 2026 — this achievement, reported by a local agriculture-and-environment paper on July 3, is more than one company's export news. The full application of the regulation (for medium and large companies, 202... -
Shrimp heads sweeten the watermelon: 30 years of sandy-soil circular farming on Co To Island
On the outlying island of Co To in Quang Ninh province in northern Vietnam, there is a family that has spent 30 years practicing a method of turning shrimp heads into compost and returning it to the sandy seaside watermelon fields. Reported on July 3, 2026, by Nong nghiep Moi truong, a specialist paper affiliated with Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the fields draw tourists who visit the island... -
The day the off-season disappears: the impact of a new longan variety where flowers and fruit coexist
On a single tree, flowers and fruit awaiting harvest hang at the same time. On a sandbar in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, such a new variety of longan has begun to bear fruit. Its name is "Long Phung Chau." It fruits about two years after planting, can be harvested almost year-round, and sells at 100,000 dong per kilo (about... -
European buyers let go of long-term contracts—the new norm in sourcing Vietnamese hard clams
At the export front line for Vietnamese hard clams (a bivalve known locally as ngao, also written ngheu), the way European buyers purchase has begun to change quietly but decisively. According to Vietnam's agriculture-and-environment newspaper (Nong nghiep Moi truong) on July 1, 2026, bivalve processing and... -
Areca over rice: a 5-ha Can Tho orchard reflects the gamble of relying on China
A farmer in Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta chose to tear out paddy fields and fruit trees and plant only areca (betel nut, cau in Vietnamese), and in 2025 made a profit of more than one billion dong (about 6 million yen, at roughly 60 yen to 10,000 dong) from the sale of fresh fruit alone. The Vietnamese paper Thanh Nien, on July 3, 2026...
