Vietnam Agriculture

In the Buon Ma Thuot area, the center of Dak Lak province in Vietnam's Central Highlands, the Dak Lak Durian Festival opened on August 15, 2026. The aim of the event is to promote the regional brand and expand export markets, but what Japanese food buyers should read is not the festival's glamour. What Dak Lak holds as a province...

On August 12, 2026, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) published the final results of the 21st annual review (POR21, covering the period August 2023 to July 2024) of the anti-dumping duty on frozen pangasius (basa / Vietnamese catfish). The duty rate jumped three- to fivefold from the preliminary results in February of that year, and the mainstay of exports to the United States...

A doctor who worked for about four years at a hospital in Dak Lak Province took off his white coat and carried his hometown's coffee to the US under his own brand. Y Pốt Niê of the Ede people (English name Henry) formally quit medicine on May 15, 2019, and sells beans from K'La hamlet, Dray Sap commune, Krong Ana district, where he was born and raised, under the name "Ê Đê Càfe"...

Vietnamese lobster farming depends on imports for more than 90% of its juveniles. We explain the quarantine procedures set out in Document No. 2625 of 2026 (isolation of up to 10 days, testing for white-spot disease and milky disease), and unpack how upstream disease control shapes the quality assurance of exports to China and Japan, from the perspective of Japanese buyers.

Lao Cai province certified 58 products as OCOP in its first batch of 2026. Of these, 14 products, including instant menma (seasoned bamboo shoots), were raised to four stars, with ISO 22000 as a condition. We read the implications for Japan's sourcing of menma and wild vegetables.

Feed accounts for about 60% of shrimp-farming costs. The Vietnamese-owned GrowMax froze price increases on all feed from June 2026. We interpret the aim of its contrarian stance while rivals move to raise prices, and the implications for Japanese shrimp sourcing.

Juvenile ca linh, a small flood-season fish, arrived for the first time at the An Giang border market. Processed products go for 250,000 dong (about 1,500 yen) per kg. We explain the ecology of this migratory fish descending from Tonle Sap, the food culture of the mua nuoc noi, and the seasonality of wild seafood that Japanese buyers should read.

Quang Ngai province, aiming to have the EU's yellow card lifted, is tightening up the licensing, VMS, and catch records of 4,863 fishing vessels. We unpack the local moves that caught 100 vessels with interrupted signals, and the traceability demands that reach Japanese buyers.

Chinese importers have entered inventory adjustment, pushing down wholesale prices around Ecuadorian produce. We interpret, with verified figures, how the cycle in China, the largest market, ripples through to Vietnam's shrimp export prices and Japan's sourcing costs.

From July 24, the United States imposed an additional 12.5% on Vietnamese seafood. The 2.5-point gap with Ecuadorian players is eroding the profitability of Vietnamese shrimp in the US market. We unpack, from a Japanese sourcing perspective, the flat US$890 million in first-half exports to the United States, the 48% last-minute surge in June, the shift to processing, and the realignment of supply to Japan.