The Navy Region 4 High Command has received 15,000 seedlings of fruit trees donated by Van Thien Thanh – an establishment specialising in providing seedlings in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.
The People’s Committee of Ben Tre province plans to develop Cho Lach district into a national hub for high-yield and high-quality fruit seedlings at a cost of 85 billion VND (3.57 million USD).
Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are trying to recover fruit orchards damaged in the 2019-2020 dry season, but they lack financial resources to buy seedlings to replace dead trees.
Ben Tre province, the Mekong Delta’s largest producer of fruit, vegetable and other seedlings, has strengthened quality management to promote its seedling brands and agriculture produce.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is seeking to develop quality seeds for its key agricultural produce to improve their quality and competitiveness.
The central province of Quang Tri plans to have at least 60,000 hectares of forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in the next 10 years, tripling the current FSC area.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to supply 300 tonnes of rice seedlings from the national reserve as a relief aid to help Lao people restore production in the post-natural disaster time.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has provided free coffee seedlings and farming techniques for local farmers in an effort to replace old, unproductive coffee trees.
Each farmer household in Lam Ha district, Lam Dong, can borrow between 50-80 million VND (2,200 – 3,500 USD) from LienVietPostBank to develop forests in tandem with expanding macadamia growing area.
Vietnam’s new forest areas rose 4.5 percent year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of the year thanks to favourable weather condition, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The northern region from Thua Thien-Hue province northward reaped a bumper harvest in the 2016-2017 Winter-Spring rice crop for the 10th consecutive year.
The northern province of Thai Nguyen plans to splash out 840 billion VND (37 million USD) to restructure its agriculture, over 700 billion VND (30.8 million USD) of which comes from the state budget and the remainder is mobilised from other legal financial resources.
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