Weekly summary of agriculture news from Vietnam (14 – 20 December 2020)
A weekly summary of agriculture development and production in Vietnam by VietLinh online.
Livestock:
Phan Thanh Binh, living in My Tu Commune, My Tu District, Soc Trang Province, is conducting a large-scale cobra farming model that brings him over VND1 billion of interest each year.
Up to now, his cobra farm is considered the largest one in the Mekong Delta. “King of Cobra Farming” Phan Thanh Binh owns more than 2,000 cobras.
Each year, he sells over 20,000 cobras at the price of VND120,000 to 150,000 each. Each cobra has a weight of 150 - 180 grams.
The finished product is sold for VND650,000-700,000/kilogram of cobras. The largest consumption markets for both breeding and commercial cobras are Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta provinces.
Plantation:
Quang Tri Province currently has 2,525 hectares of pepper. Due to the impact of the last long floods, more than 200 hectares were inundated.
Inundated pepper areas show signs leaves of falling off, or dead pepper trees at the rate of 15 - 20%, even 30 - 40% in some places. Many gardens observe 100% dead rate in farmed pepper trees. Pepper trees might continue to die if there is no timely technical intervention measures.
Up to now, most of the affected pepper areas have been intervened by farmers to prevent diseases according to the technical guidance of authorities and agencies.
With radical and long-term solutions, pepper gardens affected by floods is hoped to be gradually recovered and fully restored, allowing them to be harvested again. Farmers can also have a chance to reinvest and redevelop pepper production.
Fruits:
Fruit is a potential commodity for Vietnam's agricultural export. According to statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the export value of vegetables and fruits in the first 11 months of 2020 reached $3.01 billion. Of which, fruit products themselves account for nearly 80%.
Notably, the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which took effect from August 1, has helped significantly increase fruit export to the EU market.
Authorities recommend that fruit producers and exporters need to build up farming areas that comply with standards, increase processing and preservation capabilities to promote fruit export to large and potential markets.
Farmers, Agriculture, Countryside:
The Online Da Lat - Lam Dong Specialties Week will take place from December 18 to December 24, 2020 on e-commerce website dalatproducts.com.
The program aims to support manufacturing businesses in Lam Dong Province to sell specialty food products, reach potential customers online, as well as promote their brands to national customers.
This is the first time the Online Da Lat - Lam Dong Specialties Week program was held with about 100 products registered to attend. The program is expected to be held annually in the following years.
Living and Environment:
In 2020, Bat Xat Nature Reserve in Lao Cai Province will have 6 groups of domestic and international experts coming to conduct ecological survey and study local biodiversity. The experts discovered 8 new medicinal species.
The eight newly discovered species are all endangered rare and precious medicinal herbs, which are being strictly protected. Currently, these species are not much in quantity, distributed scatteredly. Bat Xat Nature Reserve covers an area of 18,637 hectares.
Pet, Flowers and Ornamental Plants:
According to the Ornamental Creature Association of Cho Lach District, Ben Tre Province, to prepare for the Lunar New Year Holiday 2021, Cho Len District has about 3 million Vietnamese Mickey Mouse Plant (Ochna integerrima) of all kinds to provide to the market.
In particular, natural Vietnamese Mickey Mouse Plant are the majority because the growers will follow the preferences of customers. However, the number of grafted plants is also prepared in Vinh Thanh Commune.
The quality of this year's Vietnamese Mickey Mouse Plant is good because it is carefully nurtured by growers, along with advanced cultivation techniques. In terms of price, Vietnamese Mickey Mouse Plant sole this year is likely to be higher than last year.
By Sonia LV - Copyright © VietLinh
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