Agriculture and fishing
Agricultural start-ups should focus on long-term strategy
Agricultural start-ups should capitalise on the huge demand for safe agricultural products by developing long-term, sustainable production strategies, experts said at a seminar in HCM City on Thursday. The meeting, organised by Saigon Times newspaper, was held to encourage young agricultural firms and start-ups to create clean, safe farms and agricultural products by using advanced technology.Read ...
Prolonged rain and waste caused mass fish death on La Ngà River: official
Changes to the water environment on the La Ngà River in southern province of Đồng Nai have been blamed for the death of nearly 1,000 tonnes of fish this month, provincial officials have said.Director of the province’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department Huỳnh Thành Vinh said rain lasting ...
Effective models formed to boost linkage in research and production
Innovative activities in enterprises have received much attention but have not solved the issue in applying science and technology (S&T) to increase productivity yet. Therefore, from 2013, a project on Fostering Innovation through Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) by the Ministry of Science and Technology ...
Nhat Minh
Vietnam to manage coffee quality through new database
A database of coffee areas would be used as a digital tool to assist partners in managing coffee plantations and quality in Vietnam, participants heard at a workshop held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and Global Coffee Platform (GCP) in Hanoi ...
National Steering Committee on IUU fishing prevention set up
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the establishment of a National Steering Committee on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Prevention and Control. Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng will head the committee.The committee is expected to help the PM to deal with important and inter-sector issues related to IUU ...
Internal, external factors challenge Vietnam’s coffee exports
Numerous challenges are facing the export of Vietnamese coffee, which has continually declined in both volume and value since the beginning of this year.According to Acting Director of Agro Processing and Market Development Department – Nguyen Quoc Toan, Global coffee prices have been affected by ...
The IFAD imprint in the northernmost province of Ha Giang
Ha Giang is a poor rural province located in the northernmost of Vietnam. From 1998 to date, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has funded more than US$45 million for the Province to implement two projects and 1 programme. The selection to support a ...
Vietnam eyes sustainable mariculture development
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is making a strategy on mariculture development until 2030 with a vision to 2050 to submit to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for approval. The strategy looks to achieve breakthroughs in marine farming with the purpose of building ...
Vietnam to host int’l workshop on management of marine debris
Regional cooperation to preserve the marine environment and ensure sustainable fisheries management and food security in the ASEAN region will be the focus of discussion at an international workshop to be held in Nha Trang in the central province of Khanh Hoa from May 13-15.The ...
Boosting Mekong Delta sustainable development
After more than a year of implementing the Government’s resolution 120/NQ-CP on the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta in response to climate change, up to now, the Mekong Delta has gained a number of achievements. It is necessary to build a new rural scheme for ...
Anh Quang
