Vietnam Agriculture News
Sugar prices seen stable till end-September
The last months of the year would not see a sugar shortage as the Mekong Delta would start their 2010-2011 sugar crop from September 15; and other provinces would enter their crops in late October at the latest.
Catfish breeders in troubled waters despite export surge
Exporters and/or seafood processors have been buying tra catfish for VND15,500-16,000 per kilogram, while breeding costs have climbed to VND16,000-16,500 per kilogram. Mekong breeders have suffered losses for the third consecutive year, and many of them have been forced give up their vocation as a result.
Crop insurance market needs a boost
Do Anh Truong, an official from the Ministry of Finance, says crop insurance makes a small contribution to the agricultural sector. The number of insured farmers remains low, and most crops, cattle, livestock and aquaculture (fish and shrimp) are not insured.
Broken dreams fill Mekong Delta farmlands
Tra Vinh is a typical province in the Mekong Delta with a farm development plan that has been a complete failure. According to Tra Vinh Rural Development Sub-department, the province once had 3216 farms. Since the farms ran ineffectively, their numbers have plummeted. There are now only 1764 operational farms,
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Will foreign participation energize Vietnams rice sector?
Two huge state owned enterprises, Vinafood I in the north and Vinafood II in the south, dominate Vietnams rice sector. Together they have a 70 percent share of exports that totaled six million tons in 2009.
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Coffee, pepper, cacao prices in rise in Dak Lak
The price of coffee, pepper and cacao in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has increased by 20-60 percent over the last month after more than two years of decline, according to the provinces Department of Industry and Trade.
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Vietnam inflation slows a third month on food prices
Consumer prices rose 8.69 percent from a year earlier, after inflation exceeded 9 percent in each of the previous three months, according to figures from the General Statistics Office in Hanoi Thursday. Prices advanced 0.22 percent in June from May.
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2010 Vietnam CPI
Leap in agriculture, seafood exports
Although recording the lowest growth rate at 5.8 per cent, farm produce remained a leading hard-currency earner with an export turnover of $4.6 billion in the period under review.
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$1.2 bil Goverment backing for farm tools
The task is expected to cost VND20.955 trillion (US$1.2 billion), including VND3.615 trillion ($191.2 million) by 2015, with the money coming from preferential credit sources, public fund, and the private sector.
Deer farming locks in to Ha Tinh Province
Thousands of farmers in Huong Son District, central Ha Tinh Province, has chosen deer farming as a key to escape poverty and improve their lives, said Nguyen Khac Khanh, head of the province Department of Agriculture and Rural Developments Animal Husbandry Division.
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