Agriculture and fishing
Agriculture
Agencies instructed to speed up rubber plans
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed nine state agencies to speed up the use of rubber in a bid to lift domestic demand which will help shore up falling rubber prices.Keep reading ...
Rice export target set at 5.7 million tonnes
The Việt Nam Food Association (VFA) has set the target for rice export at 5.7 million tonnes this year, up 800,000 tonnes from 2016, amid rising global demand.Keep reading ...
VN to import more cashews
Việt Nam, the world’s No1 exporter of cashew products, expects to import an aditional 500,000 tonnes of nuts from now until October to meet its annual export target, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association (Vinacas).Keep reading ...
Quảng Ninh lures additional $47 million investment
The northern province of Quảng Ninh attracted more than US$47 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first six months of 2017.Keep reading ...
Southern rubber farmers grow impatient
Discontent among southern rubber farmers against the government has grown even as the government explained it has done its best to ease their woes stemming from plummeting rubber prices.Read more ...
Trade in pulses, sesame seeds slackens after bank accounts frozen
Mandalay businessmen said prices of pulses and sesame seeds declined after a Chinese bank decided to freeze dozens of Myanmar traders’ accounts last month, triggering a slowdown in the trade of the commodities.Read more ...
Pig farmers ditch task force to monitor smuggling
A private sector task force set up by Cambodia’s pig farmers to monitor live swine imports and investigate reports of illicit smuggling has been disbanded after receiving a cold reception from government officials, the initiative’s leader said yesterday.Read more ...
Hi-tech agriculture needs better credit policies
Better credit policies and higher consumption of farming products are necessary to ensure efficient use of funds borrowed for high-tech agricultural projects, experts said at a seminar in Hà Nội yesterday.Keep reading ...
US provides over 24 billion kip for unexploded ordnance clearance
The US government has agreed to provide a grant worth 24 billion kip (US$3,026,000) to the project for supporting rural development through Unexploded Ordnance clearance in Xieng Khuang province. The grant will contribute to non-technical and technical survey and clearance of the Unexploded Ordnance clearance (UXO) ...
HCM City tracing poultry origins
After gaining encouraging results from a pilot programme that allow consumers to check the origin of pork, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade on July 1 announced the implementation of a plan to use information technology to control and trace the origin of ...
