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A farmer born in 1997 switched 1.3 ha of vegetables to sweet yellow passion fruit
In D'ran commune, Lam Dong province, a farmer born in 1997 converted 1.3 ha of vegetables. The first harvest brings daily sales of 5-10 trieu dong. Behind it is a 50-household, 50 ha chain with roughly 3.96 million yen of equipment per hectare and its own nursery. -
A 3 ha cassava hillside becomes a passion fruit trellis, and payback is decided by unit price
In Ea Rieng commune, Dak Lak province, a cassava hillside is converted to passion fruit. Against an initial investment of 200-250 trieu dong per hectare, the selling price is 10,000-20,000 dong/kg. The cumulative volume needed to recoup it differs twofold depending on the unit price. -
A woman who sold her house to build a tea factory: 80 billion dong in annual sales, with an average unit price of 320 yen per kilo
A woman in Lai Chau province who bought a struggling tea company and sold her home to build a processing plant. We follow with figures why a region with 600 contracted households and 70 tonnes a day sells to Pakistan and Taiwan at an average of 320 yen per kilo. -
The Mango Tan Hoa Standardizes on 30 ha; the Next Growing Region Japan's Buyers Are Scouting
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. -
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... -
80% Grade A at 62,000 dong per kilo: a Dak Lak durian farmer evened out quality through fertilization
Even as farm-gate durian prices fall, Le Van Tuong of the Tan Son area, Krong Ana district, Dak Lak province, sold out his 1-hectare plot at 62,000 dong per kilo (about 350 yen at roughly 175 VND to 1 yen). His Grade A rate was over 80%. Having chosen buyers by even quality rather than price, in sourcing to Japan the "standard... -
An An Giang farmer turns paddy into jackfruit for a net profit of 45 million dong, surpassing rice
In Vinh Thanh Trung, An Giang province in southern Vietnam, a farmer who gave up rice and switched to the Thai variety of jackfruit (mit) is earning take-home income that exceeds year-round rice farming. Phan Trung Tin, reported by the local paper Dan Viet (August 14, 2026)... -
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... -
Pineapple wholesale prices at a record high; DOVECO's contract cultivation overcomes the crash
The wholesale price of pineapple in north-central Vietnam has hit a record high of 19 million dong per tonne. We unpack DOVECO's contract farming, which absorbed the April-May price crash through floor-price guarantees and flowering adjustment, from a Japanese sourcing perspective.
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