Weekly summary of agriculture news from Vietnam (August 31, 2020 – September 6, 2020)
A weekly summary of agriculture development and production in Vietnam by VietLinh online.
Livestock:
In Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, there are now more than 150 beekeepers with about 6,000 honey bees, concentrated mainly in 2 districts of Chau Duc and Xuyen Moc.
These two districts have many advantages to develop beekeeping because they have a large forest area of melaleuca, rubber and industrial trees such as cashew, coffee, along with many kinds of fruit trees. The forest area is beneficials for bees collecting nectar and producing high-quality, beautiful-color honey.
In order for beekeeping to become a sustainable profession, the agriculture sector needs to have solutions to help beekeepers import quality, high-standard breeds, as well as build strong consumer markets and good branding for local honey products.
Plantation:
According to rubber growers in Song Hinh District, Phu Yen Province, currently is the season of rubber tapping. At the beginning of the crop, the price of latex was stable at VND11,600-12,000/kilogram of liquid latex. At this price, rubber growers make a significant profit.
At the present, Song Hinh District has about 4,000 hectares of rubber. The average yield of rubber farming in this local is about 1.8 tons/hectare; in some cases, it is nearly 3 tons/hectare.
Rubber growers earn about VND40-50 million/hectare. If this price is stable, rubber growers will have high income source compared to other crops in the present time.
Pet, Flowers and Ornamental Plants:
Sa Cat Cooperative Group for production and consumption of ornamental peach blossom trees in Hoang Dieu Ward, Thai Binh City has attracted 115 members participating. The cooperative has more than 12 hectares of peach blossom. Members with the largest number of peach trees plant from 450 to 500 roots, including ancient, wild peach blossom.
The advantage of growing peach blossom for florists is that local soil is especially suitable for this species. With good soil conditions, flower buds and peach petals grow evenly, are more beautiful and larger than peach blossom grown elsewhere. Currently, Sa Cat Cooperative has more than 38,500 ornamental peach blossom trees, 6,660 wild peach blossom trees, more than 42,500 seedlings, more than 14,700 ornamental kumquat trees along with thousands of fruit trees and shade trees.
Fruits:
Although the price of sweetsop is influenced by the Covid-19 epidemic, farmers in Chi Lang District, Lang Son Province are still delighted with this year's crop. During the harvest season, local sweetsop has both high yield and high price.
According to the functional sector of Chi Lang District, by 2020, the total production area of sweetsop is more than 1,860 hectares. Of which, the production area is about 1,600 hectares; the yield is more than 101 quintals/hectare, and the output is estimated at over 16 thousand tons.
The district has developed sweetsop production in VietGap and GlobalGap standards in more than 406 hectares. The remaining 1,430 hectares of sweetsop apply safe food production practices.
Farmers, Agriculture, Countryside:
In the first 8 months of the year, Vietnam’s export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products was estimated at $26.15 billion, down 0.9% compared to the same period in 2019. Of which, the export of main agricultural product group was estimated at nearly $12 billion, down 3.2%, of husbandry was estimated at $250 million, down 25.0%, of seafood was estimated at $5.2 billion, down 5.3%.
In terms of import, in the first 8 months of 2020, the import turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products to Vietnam was estimated at about $19.9 billion, down 2.5% compared to the same period in 2019.
Thus, in the 8 months of 2020, the agricultural sector saw an export surplus of about $6.2 billion, up 4.9% compared to the same period in 2019.
Living and Environment:
Cuc Phuong National Park has released 3 individual Delacour's langur back to the wild.
Delacour's langur is an endemic and rare species, named in the Red Data Book of Vietnam and the world. They are only distributed in a particular area in the Northern Delta.
Ninh Binh Province is proud to be the place that owns the largest population of Delacour's langur. At Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve, there are about 200 of these individuals.
In addition, there is another population of Delacour's langur raised in captivity for reproduction at the Endangered Primate Rescue Center, Cuc Phuong National Park.
By Sonia LV - Copyright © VietLinh
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