Vietnam Agriculture– tag –

In July 2026, India officially opened its market to fresh Vietnamese durian, moving ahead of Thailand with no additional quarantine. We read what this means as the first large-scale diversification destination for Vietnamese durian, which has staked most of its earnings on the single Chinese market, and the knock-on effects that the scramble for fresh fruit will have on Japan's frozen sourcing.

A former pig farmer in Lao Cai province grows 3 hectares of everbearing lime year-round, harvesting 20 tonnes and just under about 200 million dong a year. We read what a year-round-fruiting acidic citrus shows for Japanese beverage and food sourcing in the seasons when domestic sudachi and kabosu rest.

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.

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)...

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...