Agriculture

Particularly, local farmers will receive assistance from Seed to Table to establish the participatory guarantee system, or PGS, which is defined by the Asian Development Bank as a community-based certification system that organizes farmers into groups and coordinates regular peer reviews or inspections of their members. … [Read more...] about Japan aids organic agriculture project in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

“I chose the model because customers could watch the gardening process at the farm. They have to know what vegetables they will cook for their family’s meals. I want to introduce a non-soil and chemical-free high-tech farm in the tourism hub,” Bình said. … [Read more...] about Safe farm develops from polluted dump

According to the UN, the current heavy infestations can be traced back to the cyclone season of 2018-19 that brought heavy rains to the Arabian Peninsula and allowed at least three generations of "unprecedented breeding" that went undetected. Swarms have since spread out into South Asia and East Africa. … [Read more...] about China may send ducks to battle Pakistan’s locust swarms

Though the January revenue from Vietnamese fruit and vegetable exports to Thailand skyrocketed by 162.2% against the year-ago period, it failed to keep the country’s revenue from fruit and vegetable outbound shipments from falling in January due to the deep decline in these exports to China. … [Read more...] about Covid-19 hurts Vietnamese fruit and vegetable shipments to China

Sci-tech has also contributed over 30 percent of the added value in agricultural production, and 38 percent in the production of plant and animal breeds. In health care, Vietnam successfully performed a liver transplant in two patients, marking a breakthrough in its organ transplant technique. It also researched and produced the first made-in-Vietnam influenza vaccine (IVACFLU-S), targeting three common influenza viruses, including A/H1N1/09; A/H3N2 and influenza B. … [Read more...] about Vietnam embraces science and technology