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Nguyen Thi Bich of Ea Sup commune in Dak Lak province becomes one of 42 "Farmer Scientists." Her 2 ha of guava went from 20,000 to 30,000 dong/kg, and sales from 1.6 billion to 2.4 billion dong. We read into the decision that turned even the leaves into a tea product.

Son La province in northern Vietnam has begun a full review of all the coffee gardens in the province. Over two days, September 23 and 24, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment held meetings to inventory coffee sitting on forestry land and to build cultivation-plot data in line with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Those taking part were coffee...

The Dak Lak cooperative Tan Lap Dong is standardizing export-grade durian across 40 households and 50 hectares under four growing-area codes and moving into orchard tourism. We lay out the points Japanese importers will want to check when choosing a growing area.

The major dried-fruit company Nafoods integrated 10 group companies into SAP S/4HANA, and first-half net profit nearly doubled. Its second freeze-drying plant in Long An also came online. We have summarized it from the viewpoint of Japanese food buyers choosing suppliers.

While Dak Lak's Chanh Thu increases purchasing to 40,000 tonnes, it uses quality control to prevent a decline in the share of Grade A fruit. From the figures of a surging harvest, we lay out the perspective for Japanese importers handling Vietnamese durian as they reconsider which growing areas and factories to choose.

For Vietnamese coffee, EUDR-compliant lots trade at US$50 more per tonne. Some 35–40% of supply is compliant, and over 30% of the cultivated area holds sustainability certification. For Japanese roasters and buyers, we lay out the practicalities of how certification compliance ties directly to a price premium.

Quang Ngai province, aiming to have the EU's yellow card lifted, is tightening up the licensing, VMS, and catch records of 4,863 fishing vessels. We unpack the local moves that caught 100 vessels with interrupted signals, and the traceability demands that reach Japanese buyers.

98.5% of Vietnamese lobster exports go to China. The first half of 2026 was US$584.6 million, up 44%, but we read the danger of over-concentration shown by the 2023 spiny-lobster restrictions, and the room for diversification into the Japanese market.

At "CAFERES JAPAN 2026," an exhibition for foodservice and cafes held in Tokyo, two Japanese roasting companies stopped at the joint booth of Ho Chi Minh City's Green Economy Cooperative and Total Feeling Specialty Coffee. The specialty-coffee roaster Tokyo Coffee, and the UCC Group's U...

Vietnam, ranked seventh in the world, is moving toward full membership in the WCPFC. We read how efforts to fill the gaps in fisheries data, with observer coverage at 0% and operation records at 25 to 50%, connect directly to Japan's tuna sourcing and traceability requirements.