Vietnam coffee farmers

Starting from this year, Vietnam is going to implement the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA). Accordingly, sugar products from countries in the ASEAN imported into Vietnam will not be imposed quotas so there is a high possibility that the price of imported sugar will be cheaper than the domestic one. Moreover, the domestic sugar industry has been always facing difficulties because of smuggled sugar so this is expected to be a rough year for the domestic sugar industry. Last year, Thailand exported more than 1 million tons of sugar to Cambodia but only 200,000 tons of sugar were consumed here so the rest 800,000 tons of sugar might be smuggled into Vietnam. On average, Vietnam needs 1.45 million tons of sugar annually which can be provided sufficiently by the domestic sugar industry. However, cheap smuggled sugar competes with domestic sugar, hurting the domestic sugar industry. At a meeting on prevention of sugar smuggling, Mr. Truong Van Ba, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s sugar industry expected to face more difficulties this year

420 local farmers who are members of the Binh Ngoc agricultural service cooperative are busy tending to their sword lilies as Tet draws close. They have been holding their breath for months and now they are relieved as seeing the beautiful buds emerging a few days before the holiday. … [Read more...] about Sword lilies expected to bring farmers big fortune ahead of Tet

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - For two decades, farmer To Nguyen Ho Hai in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai grew peppers, enjoying a boon in production. Five years ago, the industry was doing so well, and the price of peppers so high, he more than doubled his investment, increasing from 900 pepper pillars to 2,000.    At the time, farmers took their profits and reinvested with prices hitting as much as 260,000 VND (11.2 USD) per kg at their peak in 2015. Hoang Phuoc Binh, Vice Chairman of the Pepper Association of Gia Lai province’s Chu Se district, recalled the time when peppers were hot in more ways than one.   “Every farmer, every household grew peppers,” he said. “The more profit they earned, the more money they poured in investing in buying land to grow more pepper.” According to Vu Ngoc An, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, when people saw households making profits of up to 500 million … [Read more...] about Quality key to pepper growth, not quantity

Vietnam’s catfish industry loses clout, suffers lower prices in 2019 A series of problems are affecting Vietnam’s catfish industry, including a sharp fall in catfish material price and decrease in breeder quality. The industry has lost its monopoly. On the world market. … [Read more...] about Catfish firms seek to exploit domestic market

“The PAN Group will support the cashew cultivation and consumption for farmers to link cashew products to global value chains. PAN Group will implement a pilot model on a material area of ​​10,000 hectares in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, then replicate the model and transfer technology to households and cooperatives in the region,” Hai said. — VNS … [Read more...] about More efforts needed to maintain VN’s leading position in cashew export