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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. -
An orchard that stopped pesticides 40 days before harvest: what did Japanese buyers go to see?
In the lychee-growing area of Thanh Ha in Haiphong, northern Vietnam, producers have agreed to stop all chemical pesticides 40 days before harvest, the local agriculture-specialist paper Nong nghiep va Moi truong reported in a piece dated September 24, 2026. The first part of the same series (dated September 23) said that from 300 trees, about one tonne... -
Breeding 30,000 parasitic wasps against coconut pests: Vietnam aims to cut pesticides across 6 Mekong sites and 12 hectares
The Southern Plant Protection Center, under the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection (Cuc Trong trot va Bao ve thuc vat) of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, will operate biological pest-control application sites for coconut in 2026 at six locations in Dong Thap province, Vinh Long province, and Can Tho City, across a total area of 12 hectares. About 30,000 parasitic wasps, and earwigs... -
Vietnam abolishes the cooperative requirement for obtaining growing-area codes, shifting to a post-shipment-inspection-led approach
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has set out a policy to remove "the establishment of a cooperative" from the conditions for obtaining an export growing-area code (ma so vung trong). Reported by Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 23 as a statement by Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep, the administrative procedure... -
Lam Dong's pepper-growing region: even at high prices, it does not return to heavy chemical use, shifting to soil-and-root cultivation
When pepper prices are high, growing regions tend to increase fertilizer and pesticides to chase higher output. Yet in Lam Dong province, Vietnam's largest pepper-growing region, the opposite move is appearing. What Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) reported in a piece dated July 26, 2026 was that "if you want to make pepper healthy, first make the soil healthy...
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