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The e-sports industry promises many opportunities for brand collaboration, experts have said.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is building a 'golden brand' for its agricultural enterprises, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan has said.

Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) has approved a framework for the country's 13th national economic and social development plan, spanning from 2022 to 2026, with the focus placed on high value-added economic development.

Vietnam’s imports of high-value seafood such as king crabs and lobsters are rising due to their falling prices, and are expected to rise even further during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, experts have said.

Trung An High-Tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company will export 1,600 tonnes of high-value fragrant rice to Singapore and Malaysia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced on January 13.

A batch of 160 tonnes of frozen shrimp products from the Minh Phu Seafood Corporation left port for the US, Europe, and Japan after a ceremony in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on January 5.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang plans to turn 7,700ha of unproductive rice fields into high-value crops to adapt to climate change and natural disasters in the 2020-2025 period.

The lives of ethnic Khmer people living in Kien Giang have improved significantly after the province efficiently implemented local and central government support policies for them in recent years.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh plans to switch to high-value crops on more low-yield rice fields and use advanced farming techniques to improve farmers’ incomes in the next five years.

Enterprises need to adopt professional governance towards promoting their sustainable development, especially in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Vu Tien Loc.

Switching to high-value crops and adopting advanced techniques have helped farmers in Soc Trang province’s Cù Lao Dung district cope reasonably well with the effects of climate change and ensure steady incomes.

The south-central province of Ninh Thuan has to stop farming on over 15,000 ha of land in this year’s summer-autumn crop due to a serious shortage of water.

More rice farmers in Can Tho city have switched to other crops or have rotated the cultivation of rice with other crops to increase income and cope with drought.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has asked enterprises and localities to look toward solutions to intensive processing of agricultural products.

Rice producers need to be more creative and increase quality if they want to see export profits rise next year.

Climate change has affected crop yields in the country but coconut can adapt and offer high value to farmers, experts have said.

A seminar discussing measures to promote Hanoi’s investment, trade and tourism in the UK took place in London on October 22, attracting attention from British investors.

Vietnam’s seafood export turnover in June reached 794 million USD, raising the total value for the first half of the year to nearly 4 billion USD, up 0.3 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Agro Processing and Market Development Authority (AgroTrade).

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a dairy farm project developed by large dairy producer TH in Nong Cong district, the central province of Thanh Hoa, on May 8.

Building agro-forestry-fishery high value chains is crucial for the sustainable development of the agriculture sector in the context of international integration, experts have said.