Mekong delta vietnam

In Hậu Giang Province, farmers in Vị Thủy District’s Vị Thắng Commune, have planted 24ha of rice under the smart rice farming model in the 2019 – 20 winter – spring crop, up 15.2ha against the last rice crop. … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta farmers expand smart rice farming

Particularly, local farmers will receive assistance from Seed to Table to establish the participatory guarantee system, or PGS, which is defined by the Asian Development Bank as a community-based certification system that organizes farmers into groups and coordinates regular peer reviews or inspections of their members. … [Read more...] about Japan aids organic agriculture project in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Two new expressways to be built in Mekong Delta The Ministry of Transport has directed the Cuu Long Corporation for Investment Development and Project Management of Infrastructure (CIPM) to conduct a pre-feasibility study for two expressway projects in the Mekong Delta. … [Read more...] about Vietnam follows new approach to deal with saline intrusion in Mekong Delta

“Water is even more expensive than rice now, although we have tried our best not to be wasteful,” said 32-year-old Nguyen Minh Phuong, who resides in Phu Tan Ward, Ben Tre City, the capital of the namesake Mekong Delta province. … [Read more...] about Water scarcity hits Vietnam’s Mekong Delta due to serious salt intrusion

HCM City (VNA) – Designing tours to safe places which have yet been hit by the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is among the choices most selected by travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta at this time. The epidemic, which hit 54 nations and territories as of 6:30am of February 28, has seriously affected the tourism sector in Vietnam in general and in the south in particular. Deputy Director of the Tourism Department of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa said that revenues of several big travel agents in the city in February decreased by 40-60 percent. The number of tourists going to the city by air in the month was down 28.3 percent compared to January and nearly 23 percent year-on-year. The number of tourists to other southern localities, including Can Tho city and Ben Tre province, also fell significantly. To make tourists feel secured, travel agents in the southern region have strictly complied with … [Read more...] about Southern travel agents improve products amid coronavirus outbreak