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Acacia alone for 40 years: a Hue farmer is chosen as one of 96 nationwide
Do Viet Tuyen (born 1962), a forestry farmer in the Phu Bai area of Hue City, was chosen as a "2026 Vietnam Outstanding Farmer (40 Years of Doi Moi)" on the strength of 8 hectares of acacia forest alone. For an award given to only 96 people nationwide, it was neither large-scale fruit trees nor high-end aquaculture but short-rotation timber for paper raw material... -
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 former engineer in Hue grows 30 million dong in monthly sales of oyster mushrooms from acacia sawdust
A Vietnamese bioengineer who quit a technical job in the south grows oyster mushrooms in Hue using acacia sawdust as the substrate. 5,000 bags per cycle, with monthly sales of 30 to 40 million dong. We read it from a sourcing perspective, as dried and powdered forms could become OEM ingredients for Japanese food makers. -
A Hue farmer converts low-lying poor paddy to lotus, reaching 3-5 times rice cropping and an annual income of JPY 5.9 million
A farmer in Hue who switched poorly drained, low-lying bad fields to lotus (sen) is earning far more than from rice. Le Thi Hoai Uyen of Phu Bai expanded lotus planting from 2 ha to more than 15 ha, and the family's annual income has reached about one billion dong (about 5.9 million yen at roughly 170 dong to the yen). What would not bear fruit with rice...
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