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In an Era When Kyokuyo Makes Sushi Toppings in Thailand, Vietnam's Factories Are Chosen for Their Processes
We have organized the shift to deep shrimp processing by four major Japanese companies, reported by VASEP on October 2, 2026, limited to what could be verified on each company's official site. It covers the length sorting and X-ray inspection that factories need in order to turn back-split shrimp into sushi toppings, and the room for growth that remains on the Vietnamese side. -
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... -
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. -
Top shrimp company Minh Phu makes its move: a new Ca Mau plant that changes Japanese procurement
On June 28, 2026, in Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the major shrimp processor Minh Phu Group's new plant, the "Minh Phu Khanh An Seafood Processing Plant," officially came online. The investment is about 1.5 trillion dong (about US$57 million, about 8.8 billion yen; at the time of writing, roughly 155 yen to the dollar and about 60 yen to 10,000 dong... -
Pandan scent with zero flavoring: the raw-material power of Ca Mau's pandan coconut
In Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the trial cultivation of a coconut called "dua dua" (dua dua), which gives off the sweet aroma of pandan leaf the moment it is split open, is beginning to take shape. A trial farm under the province's agricultural extension center has planted more than 300 trees on about 2.7 hectares, with 70 to 100 fruits per tree per year and, per fruit, 250... -
Don't fix the salt: Ca Mau's salt-tolerant farming gives rise to the business opportunity of "plant salt"
In Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, a 31-year-old who abandoned an engineering job in Ho Chi Minh City is getting "farming that only works on salt-damaged land" off the ground. What Lam Quoc Nhut grows is a salt-tolerant plant that grows wild on the embankments of shrimp ponds. Processed products such as the "plant salt" extracted from it...
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