Agricultural Startup Ecosystem

Hoayeuthuong.com - a start-up of fresh flowers in Vietnam, a professional flower and gift delivery company with more than 64 franchise retail locations all over Vietnam.

Hosted by Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and supported by Vietnam Fisheries Society (VINAFIS), International Collaborating Centre for Aquaculture and Fisheries Sustainability (ICAFIS), Vietnam Pangasius Association (VINAPA), Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), International Aqua Feed (IAF) and Aquaculture without Frontier (AWF), Aquaculture Vietnam 2017 will be held from 25 to 27 October 2017 at the Can Tho International Exhibition Fair Center (EFC), Can Tho City, Vietnam

International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank Group, is looking at the disruptive technology space even as it will continues to place its bets on mainstays like manufacturing, infrastructure and financial services in Vietnam.Sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture and service sectors, bolstered by Vietnam’s recent openness to the world, are the catalysts for increased influx of foreign investment, Vivek Pathak, East Asia Pacific director for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), said in an interaction.

Australia - When young Victorian farmer William Pattison had the idea for a business selling farmers' produce direct to consumers he got no joy when he approached incubators for financial backing in Australia. So he took his idea to the US where he secured the funding he needed to launch Produce Run from an Iowa-based accelerator. In the year since, he's grown the business to include 30,000 organic and small farmers supplying produce direct to consumers.

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.