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Dragon fruit prices surge amidst dwindling supplies

Dragon fruit prices surge amidst dwindling supplies

As the dragon fruit season concludes, an increase in prices accompanies a reduction in supply, with production plummeting by over 50%.
Agriculture companies, farmers in hot water over rising costs

Agriculture companies, farmers in hot water over rising costs

Animal feed prices continue to rise, farmers in distress

Animal feed prices continue to rise, farmers in distress

Python devours goat in central province

Python devours goat in central province

Spotting a big python in the garden, residents of central Nghe An Province captured it, opened its stomach and found a 15-kilogram goat inside.
July 17, 2021 | 01:45 am PT
Pontoon bridge a nightmare for farmers in Vietnam’s lychee hub

Pontoon bridge a nightmare for farmers in Vietnam’s lychee hub

Lychee farmers in Bac Giang, Vietnam’s lychee hub, have to cross a narrow, swaying bridge and risk losing the fruits of a year's labor to the river below.
June 13, 2021 | 03:45 pm PT
Gold rush distorts mutant orchids market

Gold rush distorts mutant orchids market

Many people investing a fortune to make an easy killing from ‘mutant orchids’ are seeing their dreams wither over scams and other troubles.
May 11, 2021 | 09:19 pm PT
Da Lat flower farmers bank on Tet sales

Da Lat flower farmers bank on Tet sales

Flower farmers in Da Lat hope for a sales surge from the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) in February following economic fallout caused by Covid-19.
November 17, 2020 | 12:00 am PT
Ripening rice terraces bring a smile to harvesting farmers

Ripening rice terraces bring a smile to harvesting farmers

Farmers in northern Lao Cai Province's Bat Xat District are busy with their only rice harvest of the year.
August 28, 2020 | 07:38 pm PT
Farmers enslaved, poisoned by toxic chemicals

Farmers enslaved, poisoned by toxic chemicals

"I don't want to know, as long as it's herbicide," Theu said while holding a bottle containing paraquat, a deadly banned chemical.
July 21, 2020 | 07:00 pm PT
To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night

To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night

Under a pitch-black night sky, a group of Vietnamese farmers planted rice this week in a paddy field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi.
June 26, 2020 | 04:35 am PT
Japanese woman spends best years of life helping Vietnamese farmers

Japanese woman spends best years of life helping Vietnamese farmers

Mayu Ino was 24 when she first came to Vietnam and decided to stay back despite her mother’s pleas.
May 24, 2020 | 05:30 am PT
Orange alert: farmers crushed as hailstorm destroys citrus crop

Orange alert: farmers crushed as hailstorm destroys citrus crop

It looks like a fairy-tale scene with garden paths paved with oranges, but farmers in northern Vietnam's Ha Giang Province are in tears and in debt.
February 18, 2020 | 10:30 pm PT
nCoV epidemic pinches Vietnamese farmers hard

nCoV epidemic pinches Vietnamese farmers hard

Many fruit-laden trucks are stuck at border gates because Chinese traders have stopped buying fruit following the novel coronavirus outbreak, hurting Vietnamese farmers.
February 4, 2020 | 07:14 pm PT
Rice husk and banana leaves nurture a Mekong Delta nursery

Rice husk and banana leaves nurture a Mekong Delta nursery

Thousands of vegetable seedlings are cultivated and sold for just VND800 (4 cents) a piece in Can Tho City.
October 7, 2019 | 04:17 am PT
Where a flower is worth its weight in gold

Where a flower is worth its weight in gold

Golden camellia grown in northern Vietnam, which many locals believe can help people with heart problems or diabetes, fetches up to $650 a kilogram.
January 28, 2019 | 05:04 am PT
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