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95% of Ho Chi Minh City's fishing boats go to electronic catch logs: how will Japan's squid sourcing change?
In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2,665 of the 2,803 fishing boats measuring 12 m or more in length have finished installing the electronic catch log (eCDT) on their devices. As of September 24, the adoption rate was 95%. The city's Department of Agriculture and Environment released the figure, and the Nong nghiep va Moi truong newspaper reported it on September 25. Replacing paper logs, the system, boat by boat and voyage by voyage,... -
One Roll of Rice Straw Becomes 50 Boxes of Firelighter; Where Should Japan's Raw-Material Sourcing Look?
A workshop that turns rice straw—once burned in the fields after harvest—into solid firelighter and ships it to the US and Canada via Amazon is in Thanh Hoa Province in north-central Vietnam. A video report distributed on September 25, 2026, by Nông nghiệp và Môi trường, the organ paper of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, reported this... -
Vietnam's PVFCCo's 150,000 Tonnes of Organic Fertilizer Is Projected for 2029; For Now, Imports and Outsourcing
Vietnam's major fertilizer company PVFCCo (brand name Phu My) presented its annual plan for its own organic fertilizer at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on September 24, 2026. The only actual track record is sales of about 3,000 tonnes in 2025; the 30,000 tonnes for 2026 is a target, and the 60,000, 120,000, and 150,000 tonnes from 2027 onward are sup... -
Shipments to the Middle East Stretched from 3 Weeks to 4; a Vietnamese Fruit Factory Named India as a Candidate
The Vietnamese fruit-processing company Agriviet Factory (corporate name Công ty TNHH Nhà Máy Nông Sản Việt Nam) named India, the Philippines, and Singapore as candidates for new sales channels for dragon fruit. The company's Le Quang Nguon told FreshPlaza, and the article... -
Coconut at 5–10 Containers a Week Goes Only to Europe and the US; Where Is Japan's Room to Enter?
The Vietnamese fresh-produce exporter Michi Fruit revealed, in an interview, its destinations by item and the number of shipments per week. In an article FreshPlaza published on September 23, 2026, the company's Eric Michi said it ships coconuts to the two markets of Europe and the US at roughly 5–10 containers a week combined, and mangoes to Australia... -
A Vietnamese shrimp farmer's crop takes four months; their mind never leaves the pond, a seafood outlet wrote
On September 22, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet Tepbac ran a column dealing solely with the psychology of shrimp farmers. The headline was "Throughout a crop, your mind never leaves the pond." It was placed not in the news pages but in an opinion column called "Goc nhin (Perspective)," signed by Phong. Neither the unit price nor the export value appears... -
Vietnam's 190,000 hectares of shrimp-rice: splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and the timing of planting and sourcing
On September 21, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist site tepbac.com published a technical article reorganizing practice from "doing it at the same time" to "doing it at the right time." It uses "tom - lua," which runs shrimp and rice in the same field, as an example of splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and from there proposes staggering the stocking timing for improved-extensive ponds... -
There are 384 trade agreements in force worldwide; the tariff on Vietnamese seafood to Japan differs by agreement
An article published by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on the morning of September 25, 2026 reported that, prompted by US tariff measures, countries are piling up bilateral and regional trade agreements, and that seafood tariff preferences are splitting finely by individual agreement. The figure placed at its center is "384." Start... -
Japan's surimi-product exports up 9% by volume; shipments to Vietnam rise 2.2-fold but to just 21 tonnes
According to Ministry of Finance trade statistics, surimi products such as kamaboko exported from Japan in January–July 2026 totaled 6,186 tonnes. That is up 9.5% from 5,650 tonnes in the same period a year earlier. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported this on September 25 as content Minato Shimbun reported citing Ministry of Finance data... -
Seafood up 9%; households' real seafood spending down 6%, splitting the shelf by item
A short article released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026 reports that household spending is not keeping up with rising seafood prices in Japan. The "9%" and "6%" in the headline are figures that serve directly as negotiating material for the Japanese side sourcing seafood raw materials from Vietnam. How...
