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Vietnamese Pangasius's Price-Hike Request Came Because the Raw Fish Exceeded the Export Price
Raw fish at 36,000 dong against an export-equivalent of 33,000 dong. From this inverted-margin structure and the buyer order of China at 27% and Japan at 2.4%, we have organized how Japan should structure its white-fish sourcing. -
Kansai Electric runs a JCM study on 100,000 hectares of Vietnamese coconut; what buyers look at is the register
Vinh Long province, Vietnam, received a carbon-credit research proposal from Japanese companies covering about 100,000 hectares of coconut. The meeting was on September 17, 2026, and those presenting were Jizoku Inc. and Kansai Electric Power. The mechanism is the Japan–Vietnam Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), and the pillars of the research are the appropriate use of fertilizer and turning by-products into bio... -
A Vietnamese shrimp farmer's crop takes four months; their mind never leaves the pond, a seafood outlet wrote
On September 22, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet Tepbac ran a column dealing solely with the psychology of shrimp farmers. The headline was "Throughout a crop, your mind never leaves the pond." It was placed not in the news pages but in an opinion column called "Goc nhin (Perspective)," signed by Phong. Neither the unit price nor the export value appears... -
Vietnam's 190,000 hectares of shrimp-rice: splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and the timing of planting and sourcing
On September 21, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist site tepbac.com published a technical article reorganizing practice from "doing it at the same time" to "doing it at the right time." It uses "tom - lua," which runs shrimp and rice in the same field, as an example of splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and from there proposes staggering the stocking timing for improved-extensive ponds... -
Vietnam's floating rice that grows with the floods: at two tonnes per hectare, can it become a raw material for Japan?
In the Mekong Delta's flood season, there is a native rice that extends its stalks to 3–5 m in step with the rising water. It is called lua mua noi in Vietnamese and floating rice in Japanese. A Vietnamese agriculture-and-environment newspaper dated September 24, 2026 reported that Le Thanh Phong, deputy director of the Institute of Climate Change at An Giang University... -
International financing debated for Vietnamese shrimp; the bottleneck lies not only in the amount of funds but in collateral and records
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... -
Tilapia to Japan up 77% in eight months; what goes to sashimi is a 1.7 kg brackish-water fish
In figures released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026, tilapia (ca ro phi) exports reached US$90 million for the January–August cumulative total, up 43% year on year. In the same figures, exports to Japan were US$2 million cumulatively, up 77%, and US$400,000 in August alone (original text "400 nghin USD"), up 19... -
A climate-controlled poultry house in Dong Thap reaches 3 kg in 45 days, running 60,000 birds with eight people
In Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta, a sealed poultry house running air conditioning holds 60,000 birds. The three farms of Nguyen Duc Lu (known as Bay Lu, 70), in Dao Than ward, reported by state broadcaster VOV on September 24, 2026, run a total area of more than 5,000 square meters with eight people at all times, raising each bird to about 3 k... in 45 days... -
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. -
The Mekong Rice Research Institute unveils wild-rice-derived ND1 and ND2, allocating them to processing and export use
The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute (Vien lua DBSCL) under Can Tho University has announced distribution approval for two new varieties, "Nong Dan 1 (ND1)" and "Nong Dan 2 (ND2)," bred from wild-rice lines as parents. The paper Nong nghiep va Moi truong reported this on August 19. The aim is not to increase table-rice output but rice...
