Hoa Tien commune in Hoa Vang district, in the central coastal city of Da Nang will be turned into a sustainable rice seed production area under a $498,894 project funded by the India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) Trust Fund. The two-year project, starting from November, 2011, was signed by the Da Nang People’s Committee [...]
Rice farmers in the Mekong Delta came in for much praise for increasing output by more than a million tonnes this year as targeted by the Government at a recent review conference. Speaking at the conference on Oct. 28 in Hau Giang province which also discussed plans for the next rice crop, Deputy Minister of [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said in Hanoi on Saturday that the government plans to adopt supportive policies to attract more investors in the agricultural sector. Hai was speaking at a meeting organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi on Saturday to discuss policies to evolve the agriculture sector during [...]
The rice growing area, output and export value indexes in 2011 all are higher than that of 2010. However, experts have warned that difficulties would come with the 2011-2012 crops due to the floods. In 2011: farmers have bountiful crops, businesses have bumper exports According to Pham Van Du, a senior official from the Ministry [...]
The agricultural sector needs to devise appropriate policies to increase its competitiveness and attract more investment as Vietnam is integrating more deeply into the world, says Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. Working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Hanoi on October 29, Mr Hai asked the sector to develop plans [...]
Vietnam has worked hard for the effective and sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas in economic, social and environmental aspects. Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat made this affirmation at a plenary meeting of the International Support Group (ISG), themed “ Vietnam responds to the new vision in agriculture”, in [...]
The public-private link has become a new trend in Vietnam’s agricultural production to ensure mutual benefit and national food security. According to Dr. Dang Kim Son, Director of the Institute of Strategies and Policies for Agriculture and Rural Development (ISPARD), Vietnam’s agricultural exports have been growing steadily. The country has succeeded in ensuring food security, [...]
Delegates at the ongoing international conference on agricultural development and food security in Hanoi have shown their confidence in Vietnam’s sustainable growth based on the country’s prospects for agricultural development. They agreed that the agricultural sector plays an important role in helping Vietnam achieve its set goal of maintaining sustainable development in the future. Recent [...]
Vietnam’s export sector holds great potential of meeting high German demand for quality aqua-products and coffee, said the State Secretary at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Robert Kloos told reporters at the Food and Hotel Vietnam 2011 in HCM City on Wednesday that German consumers wanted aqua-products from different markets, including [...]
Vietnam joined representatives from 80 other coffee importers and exporters worldwide at the 107 th session of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) in London from Sept. 26-30. During the session, the delegates discussed the apparatus of the ICO in the new tenure, assessed the situation in the world market and made forecasts on world coffee [...]
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