farmers

Cane farmers call for help after sealing off Bisuco

April 30, 2018 | 12:19

As Bisuco is going to be sealed off to overcome environmental issues, Binh Dinh’s cane farmers fear that they will not be able to find buyers even at reduced prices.

20,000 farmers to enjoy $163-million sustainability financing

March 30, 2018 | 15:57

ADB’s first non-sovereign assistance directly co-financed by JICA will lend $75 million to farmers to promote inclusive and sustainable agriculture.

Vegetable prices plunge in northern and central regions

March 16, 2018 | 10:38

After waking up at 5 a.m, Nguyen Thi Oanh, a farmer in Hanoi’s Ba Vi district, headed to the field to cut cabbages and carried them to the local market for sale.

Metro ‘s economic development goal

March 28, 2013 | 14:16

Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam managing director Philippe Bacac describes how the firm has spent a decade serving professional customers with the finest produce via developing quality supply chains and helping local producers and suppliers reach world-class quality standards.

Imports undercut sugar mills

January 23, 2013 | 14:22

Sugar producers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are losing huge profits to illegal imports of Thai sugar, which is being sold at VND500,000 ($24) a tonne lower than domestically produced sugar.

Plan promotes “sustainable dairy”

January 03, 2013 | 10:05

With Vietnam’s dairy industry only able to satisfy 25 per cent of domestic demand for milk products, local authorities are working with the Netherlands-backed FrieslandCampina Vietnam to develop a “sustainable dairy farming area” as urbanisation threatens the industry.

A fruity end to agricultural produce manipulators

September 06, 2012 | 11:24

Foreign traders manipulating the agricultural produce market are under the microscope.

Bianfishco pledges to pay farmers’ debts in August

August 14, 2012 | 11:28

Binh An Seafood Co (Bianfishco) will hand over its fish processing plant to the farmers to whom it owes hundreds billions of dong if it misses the payment deadline on August 29, promised its acting general director.

High-tech farming in Dalat 1

April 19, 2012 | 12:41

In recent years, many farmers in Dalat in Lam Dong Province have actively invested billions of dong to establish plant tissue culture laboratories and create high quality, disease-resistant breeds of plants for export.

Delta seafood firms, farmers in chain of debts

March 26, 2012 | 16:44

The business cooperation between some seafood processing companies in the Mekong Delta provinces and catfish farmers have turned into a chain of debts, with the processors unable to pay farmers, who in turn also fail to repay the feed suppliers, and so on.