The link between enterprises and farmers has helped form large raw material areas of stable and long-term development, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Quoc Tri.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Thailand establish a “pineapple metropolis” in Prachuap Khiri Khan province in 2023 to support growers of the spiky yellow fruit, according to Alongkorn Ponlaboot, adviser to Agriculture Minister Chalermchai Srion.
Eight provinces with 351 communes and more than 130,000 farmers in the Mekong Delta and the South Central regions have implemented a seasonal weather bulletin.
Ensuring the stable and consistent quality of agricultural products of cooperatives is critical to achieveing sustainable exports, in which the linkage with enterprises played a key role.
The German-funded Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector (GIC) project worth over 7 million EUR is underway in Mekong Delta localities.
100 outstanding Vietnamese farmers in 2022 were honoured at a ceremony at Hanoi Opera House on October 14 on the occasion of the 92nd founding anniversary of the Vietnam Farmers' Union (VFU).
Thousands of coffee farmers and visitors attended a recent coffee festival in Chieng Co commune in Son La city, Son La province. Representatives from companies and cooperatives and farmers came to exchange experience in planting and caring for coffee trees to ensure the highest quality and value.
Farmers in the northern mountainous province of Son La are rushed off their feet these days as they harvest “son tra” (docynia indica) fruit. A key crop in the province for many years, the trees have helped improve livelihoods for these mountainous people.
Small-scale farmers provide an estimated one third of global food output but are facing increasing fiercely climate conditions such as droughts, storms and floods, necessitating measures to boost sustainable development to cope with climate change, experts said at an international conference opened in Hanoi last week.
The flood season in the Mekong Delta has set in, helping farmers in upstream localities of Dong Thap province enjoy an abundant harvest of freshwater crabs using bamboo nets.
The seventh National Farmers’ Forum, themed “Professional Farmers” was held in Hanoi on September 12 by the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) Central Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on August 29 signed a decision asking the Ministry of Finance to allocate over 1,374 tonnes of rice from the national reserve to support farmers in the two south-central provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen ahead of the harvest season.
The Farmers’ Association of Hung Yen city in the province of the same name, in coordination with the city’s Post Office, has organised training sessions on e-commerce and how to put agricultural products on sale on postmart.vn for 60 cadres and association members in the locality.
Many farmer households in the northern province of Bac Ninh have benefited from soft loans to develop their production and increase income thanks to the support from the provincial Fund for Farmer Support.
The southern province of Ben Tre, known as Vietnam’s coconut capital, is seeking ways to support local farmers to sell coconut products amid dropping prices.
To fulfil the goal of planting 2,500 hectares of timber trees in 2022, many enterprises in the northern province of Quang Ninh donated money and seedlings. The period from July to the end of September is the best time to plant trees in the reforestation efforts for the province.
The Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Dak Lak Department of Agriculture and Rural Development have co-organised a training course for the establishment of durian growing areas and packaging facilities in the Central Highlands serving exports to China.
Farmers in the Mekong Delta have played an important role in tourism development, giving the region a facelift and contributing significantly to its socio-economic growth. Community-based tourism and nature-based tourism products created in Tra Vinh province have generated stable incomes for local farmers involved.
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