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On September 21, 2026, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment held a public-private partnership (PPP) forum in Can Tho city focused on the Mekong Delta's shrimp industry. Held through the Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture Vietnam (PSAV) in collaboration with USGBC, a US grain and bio-products industry association, the agenda centered on the shift to a circular model...

Can Tho City's Tan Hoa cooperative is standardizing the quality of the "Cat Hoa Loc" mango across a roughly 30 ha standardization zone, aiming for direct contracts with companies. We read it from the perspective of developing mango growing regions for Japan.

The cooperative HTX Trang Ti Garden in Can Tho City, Vietnam, grows the premium longan "thanh nhan" on about 60 hectares, operating 20 hectares under GlobalGAP and 30 hectares under VietGAP. By staggering the season to shift flowering to July–October, it eliminates the harvest trough, and the buying price from buyers contracted with the cooperative...

Brazil's prohibition bill 6.331 exposed Vietnamese tilapia's 54% dependence on Brazil. We lay out its quality-focused market diversification into the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East, and the supply and prices that Japanese buyers should watch.

Vietnamese tilapia has been shipped for the first time as fillets for Japanese sushi and sashimi. It was handled by Vietnam Clean Seafood Corporation of Can Tho city. The company's CEO, Vo Van Phuc, completed the first shipment of value-added fillets to Japan in July 2026, and in terms of quality and taste, from Japanese customers...

Can Tho city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta has set out a plan to develop tilapia (ca ro phi in Vietnamese, a white-fleshed freshwater fish) into a strategic export species. Starting from a farming area of 604 hectares at the end of 2025, the city's Department of Agriculture and Environment has set a goal of expanding the growing area to 96,500 hectares of potentially suitable land, with the United States as the main...

On a single tree, flowers and fruit awaiting harvest hang at the same time. On a sandbar in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, such a new variety of longan has begun to bear fruit. Its name is "Long Phung Chau." It fruits about two years after planting, can be harvested almost year-round, and sells at 100,000 dong per kilo (about...

A farmer in Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta chose to tear out paddy fields and fruit trees and plant only areca (betel nut, cau in Vietnamese), and in 2025 made a profit of more than one billion dong (about 6 million yen, at roughly 60 yen to 10,000 dong) from the sale of fresh fruit alone. The Vietnamese paper Thanh Nien, on July 3, 2026...

Le Van Sau, a durian farmer in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, has shared his cultivation know-how with neighbors free of charge and formed a "billionaire farmers club" with more than 20 members. We unpack this growing-area formation, which chose shared prosperity in a world where monopolizing technology is the norm, from the perspective of Japanese sourcing and growing-area branding.

Vietnamese name Can Tho Area 1,440 km² Population about 1.3 million Climate tropical monsoon climate. Annual average temperature 27°C. Main port / logistics hub Can Tho Port, Can Tho International Airport Overview Can Tho City is the largest city in the Mekong Delta, nicknamed the 'Western Capital' (Tay Do). Mekong...