Despite a sharp increase in the volume of rice exports in the past two months, Viet Nam still has an adequate reserve of rice for export until the year-end.
Seafood exports totalled US$2.9 billion in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 13 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Continuous increases in the prices of rice in the Mekong Delta over the past time have excited local farmers as they have driven up farmers’ profits to 30 percent of their production costs.
Global standards for responsible pangasius (genus of catfish) farming were finalised last Wednesday by the Pangasius Aquaculture Dialogue, a network of 600-plus farmers, scientists, conservationists and others.
Vietnamese dragon fruit will be exported to the Republic of Korea (RoK) at the end of this year, said Nguyen Xuan Hong, head of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
