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On 2 ha of poor land in Pa Long, Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam, sweet corn grown for a company by eight ethnic-minority households yielded 15 tonnes/ha in 90 days. Contract production, in which seed, fertilizer, and technology are handed over up front and the entire crop is bought at 6,000 dong per kilogram, levels out cash income in the mountains. We read whether it could become a third candidate growing area for Japan's frozen-corn sourcing.

In Binh Thu village, Quang Tri province, where African swine fever (ASF) wiped out almost all the village's pigs, antibiotic-free organic raising has begun using "mosquito-net pig farming," in which netting is draped around the pigsties. According to a report carried by the local agricultural journal Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 25, 2026, the major agricultural-input company Que Lam...

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...