The Vietnam Food Association (VRA) confirmed Tuesday that local companies have so far signed contracts to export six million tons of rice for 2009, state media reported. The association said the high contracted volume is thanks to rising demand from...
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Sakaba Mitsuo and Minister of Finance Vu Van Ninh on October 29 exchanged diplomatic notes in which Japan will fund JPY360 million, or $4 million for a project to ensure food security for poor Vietnamese farmers.The...
Vietnam may lose 2 million of hectares of rice paddy from climate change if the country does not take measures to cope, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dao Xuan Hoc said at a meeting in Hanoi on October 28.Hoc said that if the...
The General Customs Department said Vietnam exported its rice to 17 countries and territories worldwide in the first eight months of 2009, losing 13 markets from a year earlier.Among 17 importers, the Philippines continued being the biggest with...
Most of central highlands provinces have completed the construciton of houses for families of ethinic minorities under the government program 134. Currently, appox 4,450 poor families in Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Thuan and Phu Yen lack land...
The central highlands province of Kon Tum has evacuated 729 ethnic minority households from landslide-affected areas in Tu Mo Rong district. Thousands of households there are being affected by floods over 20 past days. The province reported property...
The central province of Phu Yen will support VND15 million ($840) for each family of ethnic minority for resettlement and production from now up to 2012.
The central province of Binh Dinh has received funding from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) to build 1,187 houses for poor families in the three mountainous districts of Van Canh, An Lao and Vinh Thanh. Of the total houses, 608 have been...
Chairman of Saigon Invest Group, Dang Thanh Tam, Oct 17 granted VND20 billion ($1.12 million) to the central province of Ninh Thuan in the program “For the Poor in Ninh Thuan Province”. According to the organizing committee, over VND72 billion and $...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has approved a VND57.3 billion ($3.2 million) project to give instructions on agricultural and fisheries expansion production for poor and nearly-poor families in seven communes in Soc Son District. The...
