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A company buys up all 15 tonnes of sweet corn born from the poor land of the Lao Cai border
On 2 ha of poor land in Pa Long, Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam, sweet corn grown for a company by eight ethnic-minority households yielded 15 tonnes/ha in 90 days. Contract production, in which seed, fertilizer, and technology are handed over up front and the entire crop is bought at 6,000 dong per kilogram, levels out cash income in the mountains. We read whether it could become a third candidate growing area for Japan's frozen-corn sourcing. -
Vietnamese products rank fourth in Japan's food sourcing; what will be asked next is environment and traceability
Tahara, an agricultural attache at the Japanese Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City, stated clearly that there is demand for Vietnamese products meeting environmental and green standards. For Vietnamese products, which rose to the fourth-largest supplier country in 2025, we interpret by item the traceability and environmental proof that will be asked for next. -
BioMar's Vietnam plant earns its first ASC feed certification among its Asia bases: proof in seafood sourcing starts with the feed
The major feed company BioMar has obtained its first ASC feed certification among its Asia bases, at a joint-venture plant in Vinh Long province, Vietnam. We read how an international certification at the upstream of feed works as proof of traceability in sourcing shrimp and fish to Japan. -
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... -
Giant freshwater prawns co-cultured in Thanh Hoa's paddies raise the value of the same land 1.5–3 times
Farming that releases giant freshwater prawns (tom cang xanh) into planted rice fields is pushing up the value of the same land several times over in Truong Van, Thanh Hoa province. Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 24, 2026 reported this organic co-culture of rice plus large freshwater prawns. Grown without pesticides... -
What 17,000 cacao seedlings tell us: Dak Lak's "control the upstream" confectionery sourcing
Cacao beans, the raw material for chocolate, come about 70% of world supply from just two countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. With those two major producing regions cutting output due to erratic weather and disease, international cacao prices have stayed stuck in a historically high range. At a moment when procurement managers are unanimous in saying they "want to diversify growing regions,"... -
10,000 tonnes of EUDR-compliant rubber: VRG's sourcing network that "turns regulation into opportunity"
The Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) sold about 10,000 tonnes of natural rubber compliant with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) from 2025 through the first half of 2026 — this achievement, reported by a local agriculture-and-environment paper on July 3, is more than one company's export news. The full application of the regulation (for medium and large companies, 202... -
Feed giant Greenfeed trades pigs online, breaking dependence on middlemen
Greenfeed, Vietnam's fourth-largest feed and pig-farming company, has launched G-Link, an online trading platform for market hogs. We interpret how it will change live-animal trading left to market prices, through to its implications for Japanese meat sourcing. -
The standardization of Dong Thap fruit, with region codes brought down to the "farmer level"
Dong Thap province, Vietnam's largest fruit-growing area, is advancing standardization through more than 2,700 cultivation-plot codes and the linking of more than 130 agricultural cooperatives. A 28-household durian cooperative manages cadmium on its own. We lay out the on-the-ground changes that Japanese importers should note. -
Stopping illegal fishing trips with 2,100 phone calls: An Giang province hones its catch management
An Giang province used about 2,100 warning phone calls over six months to urge fishing vessels that had lost communication to comply with fishing rules. We read how the tightened management of Vietnamese wild-caught seafood, moving toward the lifting of the EU yellow card, affects the reliability of Japanese sourcing.
