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Exports up 30% yet wholesale prices halve in China: the paradox of Vietnamese durian and market diversification
Vietnam's durian exports reached about US$1.8 billion in January–July 2026 (roughly 270 billion yen, a rough estimate at about 150 yen to 1 USD), some 30% above the same period a year earlier. Even as volume grows, wholesale prices at the Chinese border have fallen to nearly half for some varieties. This paradox, in which the unit price sinks the more volume rises, is, toward China... -
Australian and NZ fruit moves into Vietnam's everyday shopping: why it surged in the first half, and the homework it sets for Japan
Australian and New Zealand fruit is gaining at Vietnamese retail shelves. In the first half of 2026, import value from Australia was US$102.8 million (about 15.4 billion yen), up 55.7% year on year, and from New Zealand US$78.04 million (about 11.7 billion yen), up 20.4%. Kiwifruit, apples, grapes... -
Nam Viet teams up with a Norwegian player, moving first in tilapia breeding
The major Vietnamese seafood company Nam Viet (NAVICO) has formed a long-term partnership with Norway's Benchmark Genetics Norway (BGN) on the selective breeding of Nile tilapia. It was announced simultaneously from An Giang province and Bergen, Norway, on August 5, 2026. Selling fish... -
Two Japanese companies take interest in Vietnamese coffee: the bean's history, questioned at a Tokyo meeting
At "CAFERES JAPAN 2026," an exhibition for foodservice and cafes held in Tokyo, two Japanese roasting companies stopped at the joint booth of Ho Chi Minh City's Green Economy Cooperative and Total Feeling Specialty Coffee. The specialty-coffee roaster Tokyo Coffee, and the UCC Group's U... -
Ca Mau province moves toward 54,000 hectares of low-emission rice, shifting rice cultivation through cooperatives and carbon
Ca Mau province, Vietnam's southernmost province, will convert 54,680 hectares of paddy to low-emission rice by 2030. Alternate wetting and drying cuts seed rice by 20–40%, and profit is boosted by up to about 48,000 yen per hectare. We read, from a Japanese buyer's perspective, this shift in rice cultivation that, built on traceability, has carbon credits in view. -
Quitting a city job to return to farming in Hue: branding ornamental flowering trees with 7,000 yellow apricot trees
In the Quang Dien area on the outskirts of Hue City in central Vietnam, Nguyen Phi Truong grows nearly 10,000 of the Hue yellow apricot "hoang mai" on about 5,000 square meters. He quit his job in the city and returned to his hometown in 2018, and for Tet (the Lunar New Year) the indispensable... -
A smart trap distinguishes 148 pest species: Vietnam's pest-control logs disappear from paper
Pests are caught in traps, AI classifies their photos into more than 148 species, and farmers record them in a pest-control log on their smartphone. "VietFruitRise," run jointly by Vietnam and Australia, has begun running this whole flow with more than 100 smart traps. How far field pest control is automated, and where human... -
A university-educated Tai woman returns home to build a Lai Chau honey cooperative with nine villagers
In the mountains of Lai Chau province in northwestern Vietnam, a woman who returned to her hometown instead of moving to the city runs a beekeeping cooperative. Lo Thanh Xuan (born 1994), a Tai woman living in Ban Khoang, Muong Than village, came back to the village holding a university degree in rural development... -
A man who self-taught the cultivation of an over-harvested medicinal herb and grew it into a 40-hectare contract-farming area
On Hon Heo mountain in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a farmer self-taught the artificial cultivation of "xao tam phan," a native medicinal plant that had once nearly been harvested to extinction, and built it up into a growing area of more than 40 hectares of contract cultivation. The central figure is the head of Ba Ninh Company, and the province's medicinal plant... -
Squid and octopus for sushi to Japan and South Korea: a Vietnamese food company aims for US$30 million
The Vietnamese food company Lien Viet Xanh Food Group is targeting the Japanese and South Korean markets with processed squid and octopus for sushi toppings. Its 2026 export-sales target is about US$30 million (roughly 4.5 billion yen at an approximate rate of 150 yen to the dollar). It has already piled up about US$16 million in the first half, and for the second half the remaining...
