(VOVworld) ' The southern province of Binh Thuan is famous across the country for its blue dragon plants. In the past, blue dragons were grown as decorative plants, however the tree has now become a big hard currency earner for the province helping to reduce local poverty levels amongst farmers and some have even become better off. The province has been attempting to improve the quality of the export fruit to ensure sustainable growth. A report by VOV's To Tuan. … [Read more...] about Exports of blue dragon fruit target sustainable growth
Sustainable growth
Binh Dinh increases cooperation for sustainable growth
(VEN) - Located on the economic development axis along the central region that goes through Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and the East-West Economic Corridor, Binh Dinh has many advantages in terms of transport and abundant natural resources. The province is gradually restructuring its economy and utilizing its potential while at the same time expanding cooperation with other localities nationwide as well as the Lao provinces of Champasak, Sekong, Attapu, Salasan, and Thailand's Sisaket and Ubon Ratchathani. Vietnam Economic News' Hung Hai spoke with Binh Dinh Province People's Committee Chairman Le Huu Loc. … [Read more...] about Binh Dinh increases cooperation for sustainable growth
Sustainable growth big concern for 2010
Though industries have regained growth after a long difficult period, economists have pointed out that recovery is precarious when the growth depends on the investment scale, low labor costs and Vietnamese products that primarily compete using low prices. Industries make up nearly 40 percent of the GDP and their recovery in the last months of 2009 greatly helped ’s national economy obtain its growth rate of 5-5.2 percent.Vietnam High growth, but high inventories Processing industries contributed the most to the recovery in the second half of the year, including animal feed production, garment and footwear, household electric goods and construction materials. The growth rate of mining industries decreased mostly because of lower prices in the world market. This has not caused problems for the national economy, since raw material exports do not benefit the national economy in the long term. The recovery was mostly created in the private economic sector and foreign invested … [Read more...] about Sustainable growth big concern for 2010
Quang Ninh: The forum to enhance the tourism service quality towards the sustainable growth
(Cinet) – Recently, the Quang Ninh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held the ceremony to commemorate 51 years of establishing the Vietnam tourism industry (July 9,1960-July 9, 2011) and held the forum with the topic “enhancing the tourism service quality towards the sustainable growth”. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Ha Quang Long, the Director of the Quang Ninh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism reviewed the development process of Quang Ninh province. In recent years, Quang Ninh tourism industry has had outstanding development steps, to become the key economy of the province. To forward to the goal of being a locality having the strong tourism economy, in the next time, the Quang Ninh tourism industry will continue to plan to sort out and build up and advertise the trademark to create diversified tourism products to have a scale and unique feature. At the forum, representatives presented some speeches concentrated on the issues: the real … [Read more...] about Quang Ninh: The forum to enhance the tourism service quality towards the sustainable growth
Moving Toward Sustainable Growth
Moving Toward Sustainable Growth By Ngoc Hung Vietnam’s coffee industry is gearing toward sustainable development to ensure better quality and value Despite the negative impact of the global economic slowdown, agriculture remained a bright spot in Vietnam’s export profile last year, bringing total revenue of US$15.4 billion. Among the top agro-product exports, coffee secured an outstanding place, generating more than US$1 billion. However, coffee production in Vietnam is still on a small scale and coffee prices are greatly affected by the world market prices. The product is exported in large quantity but its price is not so high compared with those of other coffee producing countries like Brazil. The main reason for the poor competitiveness is the small-scale coffee farming that leads to different cultivation methods. As a result, the coffee yield and quality is unstable. The director of a coffee enterprise says it is hard to fetch a high price for Vietnam coffee if the … [Read more...] about Moving Toward Sustainable Growth