Medicinal plants– tag –
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Da Lat's artichokes: a single plant bought by part, to spec
In Da Lat, Lam Dong, Vietnam, the pharmaceutical company Ladophar produces artichokes in partnership with farmers, and we interpret, from the perspective of Japanese sourcing and ingredient development, its move to sort the leaves, buds, stems, and roots into tea, extracts, and foods and buy them to pharmaceutical specifications. -
Lao Cai enacts a support ordinance for medicinal plants, subsidizing up to 5 billion dong per project from seedlings to processing
Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam put into effect Resolution No. 24 (Nghi quyet 24/2026/NQ-HDND) on August 22, 2026, injecting public funds into building up medicinal-plant growing areas. Linking seedling production, concentrated cultivation, cultivation under the forest, development of raw-material zones, and storage and processing into a single support measure, per project... -
A man who self-taught the cultivation of an over-harvested medicinal herb and grew it into a 40-hectare contract-farming area
On Hon Heo mountain in Khanh Hoa province in south-central Vietnam, a farmer self-taught the artificial cultivation of "xao tam phan," a native medicinal plant that had once nearly been harvested to extinction, and built it up into a growing area of more than 40 hectares of contract cultivation. The central figure is the head of Ba Ninh Company, and the province's medicinal plant... -
Nghe An province approves a 618-hectare high-tech forestry zone—integrating large-diameter timber with understory medicinal plants
Vietnam's forestry has long been structured around churning out cheap, thin trees for chips in large quantities. A plan to restructure that is getting under way in the north-central region. According to Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 27, 2026, Nghe An province, with a "North-Central High-Tech Forestry Application Zone" at its core, grows thick... -
Earning from sa nhan without felling the forest: Lang Son's amomum-growing area gets moving
A hamlet in Lang Son province grows 76 hectares of the medicinal sa nhan (amomum) under the forest, and 18 households now earn over 100 million VND a year. We interpret this move toward organized production that benefits Japanese crude-drug and spice sourcing.
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