Equipping farms with equipment equal to at least 2hp per hectare by 2015 is among the measures recommended by experts at a meeting held in the city of the Mekong delta city of Can Tho to discuss the Government's ambitious mechanisation plan.
The first ever national fruit festival will be held in southern Tien Giang province from April 19 to 24, authorities from the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province told the media in HCM City yesterday.
Da Lat City s flowers industry could dominate the world market within a decade with the right management, an expert told a recent conference in Da Lat.
More than 22 million farmers across the country will be offered the opportunity to attend free training courses to improve their farming skills from the beginning of March, according to a recent decree approved by the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
The agriculture sector should review its plans to improve productivity and quality of agricultural products of high economic value and apply technological solutions more effectively in agricultural production, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung.
Members of the Vietnam Food Association (Vietfood) on September 9 began to buy an additional 500,000 tonnes of rice in the Mekong Delta region to deal with the current decline in rice prices.
Resettled villagers in Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands have destroyed 13ha of protected forest in Sa Thay District, neighbouring Kon Tum Province, over the last few months because of a shortage of arable land.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the southernmost province of Ca Mau to develop shrimp farming on the industrial scale on at least 20,000 hectares of water surface to tap its fishery potential.
