Agriculture and fishing
Officials bid to increase South Korean investment
A delegation of Cambodian investment officials and prominent private sector businessmen held a seminar in Seoul, South Korea, on 29 June in an effort to drum up more Korean investment in Cambodia’s growing agro-industrial sector. The Cambodian delegates briefed more than 80 Korean investors in attendance on ...
New restrictions aim to curb rice imports
Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on 27 June that the government will block all illegal rice imports at its borders and limit legal rice shipments from Vietnam based on production cost. As part of the new regime, only milled rice with a production cost of ...
Proposed Taiwan megaproject in Ha Tinh needs PM approval
Taiwanese firm Wei Yu Engineering’s US$2.5-billion investment proposal in Ha Tinh Province must be approved by the Prime Minister, not the provincial government, said an official. Tran Tu Anh, director of Ha Tinh Department of Planning and Investment, told Dan Tri news website last week that ...
Mekong Delta urged to step up paddy farming
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for provinces in the Mekong Delta to expand paddy farming in areas with favorable weather conditions given positive projections for outbound sales of the staple food later this year. With positive market forecasts by the VFA, Deputy ...
Irrigation agricultural technology project boosts farmers' knowledge
Farmers have improved their methods of irrigation management and technique of rice products after the completion of a joint Japanese and Lao basic irrigation agricultural technology dissemination project recently. The project’s assessment meeting was held in Vientiane last week and was attended by the Irrigation ...
Local fishers still reporting catches at Don Sahong
Local fishers around Don Sahong Hydropower Project area in Khong district, Champassak province said their fish catches have only decreased slightly this year as the project has improved fish passage for upstream and downstream migration. One fisherman in Don Sahong village, Mr Viengxay explained that recently ...
Vietnam spends nearly $1 million/day to import pesticides from China
In the first 5 months of 2016, Vietnam spent US$140 million for the import of Chinese pesticides, or nearly $1 million a day, according to statistics of the General Customs Administration. Specifically, in May alone, Vietnam paid $27 million to import materials and pesticides from China. ...
Cashew industry: Time to make a bold move
A recent national cashew forum in Hanoi sponsored by the Vietnam Cashew Association focusing on ways to promote sustainability of the industry, attracted hundreds of stakeholders. The primary constraint that stakeholders face, undermining their efforts to realize the full trade potential for cashews is lack of ...
Rice production expected to not meet targets
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos has estimated farmers around the country to produce 4.2 million tonnes of rice this year; 600,000 tonnes of which is expected to be dry season rice, 3.4 million tonnes of wet season rice, and another 200,000 tonnes ...
Poverty reduction – Central Highlands’ main political task: PM
Poverty alleviation remains a main political task of the Central Highlands region, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a working session with the Central Highlands Steering Committee in Dak Lak province on June 20. He suggested regional localities study and propose amendments to their specific ...
