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  The Ngã Bảy floating market in Hậu Giang Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Duy Ba HCM CITY — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Hậu Giang plans to focus on sustainable agricultural tourism as part of its effort to lure tourists to the Mekong Delta region. Speaking at a conference held this week in the province, Lê Tiến Châu, chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said the tourism sector played a vital role in the area's socio-economic development. Over the past five years, the province has developed key projects related to tourism infrastructure and products, and has strengthened linkages with travel firms in other provinces. It has also enhanced tourism promotional activities. However, the area's potential for agrotourism has yet to be realised. Nguyễn Thị Lý, deputy director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta targets agrotourism development

  A coconut orchard in Phong Nẫm Commune in Bến Tre Province’s Giồng Trôm District. – VNA/VNS Photo Công Trí BẾN TRE — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre is focusing on building value chains for its key agricultural products to meet domestic and export demand. The products are coconut, green peel and pink flesh grapefruit, rambutan, longan, ornamental plants and flowers, pigs, cows, and shrimp. The province is the delta’s largest coconut and green peel and pink flesh grapefruit producer. It has more than 28,000ha under fruits and an annual output of more than 300,000 tonnes and nearly 71,000ha of coconut, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Huỳnh Quang Đức, deputy director of the department, said efficient value chains had been developed for coconuts, green peel and pink flesh grapefruit and longan. The province has 98 co-operative … [Read more...] about Bến Tre develops value chains for key agricultural products

    Việt Nam saw a slight decrease in the export value of fruit and vegetables during the first 11 months this year. Photo vietnambiz.vn     HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam's fruit and vegetable exports dropped 0.6 per cent year-on-year to US$3.5 billion in the first 11 months this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The drop was attributed to falling earnings from dragon fruit, which accounted for 31 per cent of total fruit exports, (down 9 per cent), durian (down 17.4 per cent), coconut (down 35 per cent), longan (down 56 per cent) and watermelon (down 26.4 per cent). MARD’s Agricultural Products Processing and Market Development Department said the strong decrease in exports to China, which accounted for 66.8 per cent of all fruit and vegetable exports, was also a reason behind the fall. The rise in exports to the US, the European Union, Japan and the Republic of Korea was not … [Read more...] about Việt Nam’s fruit and vegetable export value falls in 11 months

  Growing flowers and ornamental plants in Đồng Tháp Province’s Sa Đéc City. — VNS Photo Ngọc Diệp HCM CITY — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field.  The delta, the country’s largest rice, seafood and fruit producer, achieved a growth rate of 3 per cent a year between 2016 and 2018, higher than the country’s average growth rate of 2.67 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. In An Giang Province, local authorities and farmers have set up specialised farming areas and used advanced farming techniques in recent years. The province has established a 25,000ha specialised glutinous-rice area in Phú Tân … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta agriculture adapts to climate change

The Dien Bien Phu victory on May 7, 1954 was Vietnam’s biggest victory in the resistance war from 1945 to 1954. The victory manifested Vietnamese military intelligence, of which General Vo Nguyen Giap’s changing the strategy from ‘Fast Strike, Fast Victory', to ‘Steady Attack, Steady Advance' was a decisive factor.   65 years have passed but memories of the battle are still looming in the mind of Colonel Nguyen Boi Giong, who was then Military Secretary of Major General Hoang Van Thai, chief of staff of Dien Bien Phu campaign. On January 23, 1954, Giong and others led by General Vo Nguyen Giap surveyed the battlefield prior to the attack scheduled to take place two days later. Perceiving many unfavourable conditions, General Giap promptly shifted strategy from “Fast Strike, Fast Victory”, to “Steady Attack, Steady Advance”. In combat, all information is sensitive. To avoid information from being leaked, General Giap wrote a letter … [Read more...] about Gen Giap’s strategic rethink-decisive factor to Dien Bien Phu victory