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In the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, aged native-variety tea is beginning to be sold as the opposite of "cheap mass-produced tea." The Shan Tuyet snow tea handled by a processing workshop in Tan Lap hamlet, Vinh Thuy commune, Tuyen Quang province, circulates in small quantities in a price band of 6 million dong per kilo, and its processing...

The steep slopes of Son La province in northwestern Vietnam are changing from fields of maize and cassava into a growing area for coffee and fruit trees. The Vietnamese newspaper Dan Viet took up the transformation of the Na San plateau in Chieng Mung district, formerly Mai Son district, reporting how the cultivation value of the sloped land has jumped...

Pruned branches and leaves from coffee plantations and the husks left after processing used to be nuisances, merely burned in a corner of the field or left to pile up. But in Vietnam's main growing areas, these "things that were meant to be thrown away" are being remade into organic fertilizer, curbing the use of chemical fertilizer while even pushing up farmers' incomes...

At an orchard in Dong Nai province in southern Vietnam, short dwarf palms are bearing fruit heavily on their branches. The orchard is run by a disabled war veteran who, despite having lost his right hand, has stood in the fields for half a century. The local outlet "Dan Viet" praised it as "lam nong tu te" (honest farming)...

A rundown wetland on the outskirts of Haiphong has become a poultry house whose temperature and humidity are watched by smartphone. The free-range-chicken farm a veteran opened on his own holds 25,000 birds, and a partner company drives trucks to the site to buy the entire flock. Though this case looks like one person's comeback story, for Japanese meat sourc...

Ducks usually bring to mind flocks on ponds and waterways, but in Nghe An province in central Vietnam, a farmer has emerged who runs 60,000 birds without using any open water at all. It is operated by Dinh No Phu Quy, born in 1992. The shed-raised duck business he started in 2021, after deducting expenses, earns a year...

At an orchard in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a tiny bee just a few millimeters long has become a source of income exceeding one billion dong a year. At the foot of a vast orchard planted with mango and coconut, 4,000 colonies of stingless bees are lined up in hives, in a system that handles pollination and honey harvesting at the same time. The farm...

Cacao beans, the raw material for chocolate, come about 70% of world supply from just two countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. With those two major producing regions cutting output due to erratic weather and disease, international cacao prices have stayed stuck in a historically high range. At a moment when procurement managers are unanimous in saying they "want to diversify growing regions,"...

A cheap freshwater snail that children pick up at the edge of the rice fields is being transformed into an herb-prepared processed product and shipped to South Korea. What Nguyen Huu Nhon (34), a farmer in Lam Dong province in southern Vietnam, has built is not merely a farming business. A young man who graduated from law school takes a snail worth next to nothing for raw consumption and processes it...

In a greenhouse on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, red-ripened Miyazaki mango bore fruit from Vietnamese soil. It was grown by Nguyen Minh Nhan, who runs Stellar Orchard. The fruit first harvested from about 1,500 four-year-old trees goes for 400,000 dong...