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Last year, while sea food exports to traditional market such as USA, Japan and EU decline, ASEAN increase seafood imports from Vietnam, and this trend is expected to continue this year.

In the context of globalization, market economy has spread throughout the world, large corporations is currently has market penetration strategy of shifting production strongly to take advantages of tax incentives, labor cost, temporary import and re-export, processing….in third countries.

Farmers in U Minh and Tran Van Thoi Ward (Ca Mau Province) said, the demand for wild-caught fish exceeds its supply so fish price rises to the highest level in recent years. The authorities identified that fish yield in CaMau province in 2015-2016 period is estimated at 20.000 tons, goes down by 10.000 tons compared to previous period. This is the lowest quantity in the last 5 years. Currently, total quantity reach 15.000 tons, in which snakehead, perch, mulch yields is 8000 tons, 2000 tons and 1500 tons respectively, the rest belongs to other types of fish.

Over decades, many households in Hai Minh village, Hai Cang Ward (Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh) has changed the economic life thanks to cage farming of fish in open sea. It has brought about stable income, job opportunities for hundreds of local workers. According to Mr Truong Thanh Hung, Chairman of Fishermen Association in Hai Cang Ward, previously without cage farming of fish, farmers in Hai Minh village exploited coral to earn their living. Then, this job is abandoned due to its serious impacts on natural environment as well as its danger to marine ecosystem. Therefore, they have switched to aquaculture. They usually raised fishes that generate high yield and price such as grouper, cobia, pomfret, sea bass, red snapper,…

HCM CITY (VNS) — The rubber industry expects another difficult year due to falling prices and low demand in the global market, the Viet Nam Rubber Group has said.

Speaking at a review meeting in HCM City on Friday, Tran Thoai, the company's deputy general director, said Viet Nam exported 1.14 million tonnes of natural rubber worth US$1.53 billion last year, an increase of 7.1 per cent in volume but a decrease of 13.5 per cent in value as prices dropped.

Industrialization and urbanization has narrowed farming land in Ho Chi Minh City year by year but the city’s agricultural industry has sustained its growth momentum hitting 5.9 percent last year, far higher than the country’s average rate of 2.4 percent.

HANOI -- A Japanese team including Fujitsu engineers will test the use of remote monitoring to help Vietnamese farmers improve crop yields and keep track of produce prices.

The effort begins this month. The team will install several dozen sensors on a 1,000-sq.-meter farm in Vietnam's Ha Nam Province to monitor weather, soil and growth conditions in nearly real time. Fujitsu will build the system, while Aeon Agri Create will analyze the data in Japan to provide guidance to Vietnamese farmers.

Tea and coffee are two of major exporting commodities of Central Highlands' agriculture, contributing to enhance living standards for thousands of farmers in the region. However, export markets for these two commdities have yet to be stable, usually fluctuating due to shortfall in strategic development.
In the circumstance that region's agricultural products mostly rely on some familiar market, several enterprises are currently looking for brand new ones. Yet reaching for sustainable output has still been a conundrum. 

Xylem has been awarded a $1.7 million contract with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to design and supply advanced water pumping technologies as a key component of a significant irrigation project in Vietnam.

The agricultural sector should develop a sustainable value chain towards modernisation to improve its competitiveness during the international integration process, as heard at an innovation forum in Ho Chi Minh City on September 30.

Pangasius is a key seafood export item, accounting more than 25 per cent of the country’s total seafood export value and over 95 per cent of world pangasius export value..

Organica, a system of organic food development and distribution in southern Vietnam, is one of the first farms in Vietnam to receive two organic farming certificates from the U.S and the EU.

Mapal Plastics has existed for almost 30 years. In the last few years the company caters to the dramatic increase in the Organic & Biologic agriculture, primarily in the developed world.

These enterprises are revolutionizing Indian agriculture with technological innovations, making farming more sustainable and profitable for farmers.

Advances in technology are key to the future of agriculture as farmers strive to feed the world with limited natural resources. There are an estimated 570 million farms in the world and, in a neat twist of number synergy, according to Valoral Advisors, funding rounds in technological innovations along the agriculture and food value chain also raised around $570 million in 2014.

Huynh Quang Vinh, deputy general director of An Giang Fruit-Vegetables & Foodstuff JSC, told a discussion at the Mekong Connect CEO Forum that the Mekong Delta is in dire need of solutions and equipment to preserve post-harvest farm produce.