The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre will continue to strongly implement key tasks in combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities, especially completing the registration of ‘three no’s’ fishing vessels, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Signed trade agreements are creating favourable conditions for coconut to truly become a key industrial crop. However, this is also a challenge that requires a sustainable development strategy so that coconut products can meet the increasing standard requirements of export markets.
A forum on connecting coconut production and consumption took place in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on December 13, offering a venue for relevant parties to discuss ways to fully tap the potential of both domestic and international markets to develop coconut into a billion-USD industry.
Vietnam’s fresh coconuts are being increasingly consumed in international markets such as the US, China, and the UK, highlighting a bright spot in Vietnam's fruit export sector with many opportunities for breakthroughs in the near future.
A ceremony to announce the official export of fresh coconuts of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre to the Chinese market was held on October 25 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnam Mini Digital Investment and Trading JSC.
The first batches of fresh coconuts from Vietnam have arrived in China via land border gates between the two countries.
The southern province of Ben Tre is striving to attract investors to its coastal areas as a move to realise its goal of developing its eastern part.
The Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA), under the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, on October 15 officially handed over a project on sustainable coastal community development through ecotourism and the application of the sufficiency economy philosophy to Binh Dai district in Vietnam’s southern province of Ben Tre.
Thanks to efforts to intensify in-depth trade promotion, and maintain and expand export markets, the export turnover of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre hit over 1.2 billion USD in the first three quarters of 2024, up 14.02% year-on-year, and equivalent to 70% of the yearly plan.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on October 3 organised an investment promotion conference themed "Ben Tre – look east vision and sustainable development potential", aiming to introduce its potential, strengths, and development orientation following the provincial master plan for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, known as the coconut capital of Vietnam, is making all necessary conditions ready to be able to export this fruit to China, given that a protocol on phytosanitary requirements for Vietnamese fresh coconuts exported to China was recently signed.
The YMCA Vietnam Social Co. Ltd. and students from Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education (ITE) have supported Phuoc Ngai Primary School in the southern province of Ben Tre to upgrade a yard of the school’s auxiliary establishment in Phuoc Ngai commune of Ba Tri district.
The Vietnam Coconut Association has forecast that coconut exports will hit 1 billion USD this year, driven by the signing of a protocol for official export of fresh coconuts to China.
The southern province of Ben Tre is intensifying its efforts to meet the requirements on fishing vessel registration and fishing licence as part of efforts to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien has asked the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre to strictly manage its fishing fleet in an effort to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has directed local agencies and administrations to carry out urgent task and solutions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing until September.
As many as 150 people joined a yoga performance in the southern province of Ben Tre on June 26 to mark the 10th International Yoga Day themed “Yoga for Women’s Empowerment”.
The People's Committee of the southern province of Ben Tre has issued a plan to implement the Party Central Committee Secretariat’s Directive No. 32-CT/TW dated April 10, 2024, on strengthening the Party's leadership and direction on the combat against illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing and the sustainable development of the fisheries sector, so as to create a change in public awareness of the role and importance of these works.
The clam farming sector of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has received Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, marking the third time it has met the organisation’s sustainability and management standards, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Doan Van Danh announced on May 28.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has intensively implemented measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in anticipation of the fifth working round with the inspection delegation from the European Commission (EC).