The income per capita of rural residents in Kien Giang province, the country’s largest rice producer, has reached 46.2 million VND (1,990 USD) a year, up 1.5 times against 2015, mostly due to the use of new farming models and agricultural restructuring.
Hanoi's health sector has improved its service in recent years, aiming to decrease the amount of money Vietnamese spend on treatment overseas, a figure that currently amounts to about 2 billion USD annually.
The national target programme on new rural development was a focus during the National Assembly’s questioning of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, the first Government official to take the floor before the NA during the Q&A session on November 6.
Farmers' incomes in the Mekong Delta have risen as a result of membership in agricultural cooperatives, but the effectiveness of the groups is still limited, experts have said.
The Mekong Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field.
The southeastern province of Tay Ninh, the country’s largest custard apple producer, is growing the fruit to good agricultural practice (GAP) standards such as VietGAP and Global GAP to meet the market demand and improve farmers’ incomes.
The Ca Mau Province People’s Committee has earmarked 4 billion VND (172,320 USD) worth of subsidies for seven new-style agricultural cooperatives this year.
Farmers and companies in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are earning higher incomes from coldwater fish farming by using advanced techniques and taking advantage of favourable weather conditions.
Loc Troi Group, a leading provider of agricultural services and products in Vietnam, on July 23 announced it had exported 8.1 kg of seeds that will grow into seedless watermelons to Japan.
Lao Cai must strive towards sustainable and inclusive tourism development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the northern mountainous province’s trade, investment and tourism promotion conference, which took place on July 20.
Many farming models using advanced techniques and offering farmers higher incomes have been adopted in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An.
The People’s Committee of Lam Dong province has approved a five-year plan for the sericulture industry which targets having 9,500-10,000ha of mulberry farms by 2023.
Two health experts of Cuba have come to work at the Dong Hoi Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in the central province of Quang Binh, Director of the hospital Duong Thanh Binh said on July 9.
The Relics Preservation Institute, after examining 134-year-old Bui Chu Church in Nam Dinh, has proposed two possible renovation plans to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre will develop its maritime economy over the next decade, focusing on fishing, tourism and renewable energy, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
The HCM City Department of Health on March 28 instructed the top public obstetrics and paediatrics hospitals to expand the training they provide doctors at lower-level health facilities including private hospitals.
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