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Vietnam Agriculture
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Vietnamese tuna hits US$544 million in seven months, led by the US, but a 12.5% tariff is a year-end headwind
In data released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on August 19, tuna exports in January–July 2026 reached US$544 million (about 80.5 billion yen at 148 yen to the dollar), turning to a 2% year-on-year increase. Most of the first half had been below the prior year, but a run of sharp gains in June and July pushed it back up... -
US cherries fetch up to 4,500 yen/kg in Vietnam; imports rise 9.3% despite frost damage
US cherries carried a price of up to 800,000 dong per kilo—about 4,500 yen in Japanese currency—on Vietnamese shelves. After spring frost damage that struck Washington State cut this season's production by 23% and shipping costs were added on top, red cherries are 80–90% higher than the previous year and yellow cherries up to 95% higher. Even so, 2026... -
The Mekong Rice Research Institute unveils wild-rice-derived ND1 and ND2, allocating them to processing and export use
The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute (Vien lua DBSCL) under Can Tho University has announced distribution approval for two new varieties, "Nong Dan 1 (ND1)" and "Nong Dan 2 (ND2)," bred from wild-rice lines as parents. The paper Nong nghiep va Moi truong reported this on August 19. The aim is not to increase table-rice output but rice... -
Acacia alone for 40 years: a Hue farmer is chosen as one of 96 nationwide
Do Viet Tuyen (born 1962), a forestry farmer in the Phu Bai area of Hue City, was chosen as a "2026 Vietnam Outstanding Farmer (40 Years of Doi Moi)" on the strength of 8 hectares of acacia forest alone. For an award given to only 96 people nationwide, it was neither large-scale fruit trees nor high-end aquaculture but short-rotation timber for paper raw material... -
Cao Bang Province's Glass Noodles Head to the US: The Frontier Sales Channel Opened by Tan Viet A's Four-Star Product
In Cao Bang, a mountainous province in the far north of Vietnam, the glass noodles "Mien Dong" made by the Tan Viet A cooperative are on US shelves. This product, which first shipped 4 tonnes in January 2025, is the first Cao Bang OCOP-certified item to reach the US market. Having expanded its raw-material sourcing across Southeast Asia... -
Son La's custard apples weigh 1.3 kg each, sell out at the field, and bring 1.5 billion dong in profit on 4 hectares
In Mai Son district, Son La province in northwestern Vietnam, large custard apples that grow to 0.8–1.3 kg each have been surrounded by buyers at the field from the first day of harvest, and orders keep coming without a break. Slopes that were once self-sufficiency land for corn and cassava, through replanting with Thai, Taiwanese, and Sau Rieng varieties and... -
Japan dispatches experts for an on-site fruit-fly test on pomelo, and the opening to Japan gets moving
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE) is moving ahead with technical negotiations to open new export destinations for pomelo and passion fruit. As part of this, Japan has sent its own experts to Vietnam to supervise large-scale on-site trials of the fruit flies that attack pomelo. To settle the control method... -
Quang Tri's Arabica: The Gap Between 26,000 Dong per kg of Green Beans and 280,000 Dong for the Finished Product
In Huong Phung, Quang Tri Province in central Vietnam, the field of Le Trang, who grows Arabica on one hectare, produced about 20 tonnes of fresh cherries in 2025. The average unit price at which he hands them to processors is 26,000 dong per kg (about 149 yen). The same beans ultimately, in specialty... -
Two Lam Dong women quit legal careers to make cacao: after South Korea, now toward exports to Japan
In Cat Tien 2 commune (Xa Cat Tien 2), Lam Dong province, the cacao-manufacturing company Ban Ca cao, run by two women born in 1993, has, after exporting to South Korea, begun the procedures to export to Japan. A small OCOP three-star maker that finishes chocolate bars and pure cacao powder in-house, with 2.5 tonnes a week... -
Vietnam's shrimp at US$2.3 billion in the first half and a 12.5% US tariff open a gap for Japanese sourcing
The Vietnamese government has set its 2026 export target at US$546 billion to US$551 billion (about 80 trillion yen, estimated at roughly 148 yen to the dollar). It piled up US$319.7 billion in January to July (up 21.7% year on year), but by the calculation it must earn an additional US$227 billion to US$231 billion over the remaining five months, and Nguyen Anh Son, director-general of the foreign-trade department, said the remaining...
