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Lychees in a cardboard box (Photo: VNA) Bac Giang (VNA) - The northern province of Bac Giang, dubbed Vietnam’s “kingdom of lychee”, has devised three scenarios for the sales of its staple in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. online marketplaces . Meanwhile, over 1,600 tonnes were shipped to Vietnam’s northern neighbour via official trade channels. A farmer in a lychee orchard (Photo: VNA) According to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the province has around 28,100 ha of lychees this year with an estimated output of more than 180,000 tonnes, an increase of 15,000 tonnes compared to last year. This includes 45,000 tonnes of early-ripening lychee harvested on an estimated 6,050 ha along with 135,000 tonnes of lychee from the main crop on 22,050 ha. Bac Giang in fighting COVID-19 in a spirit of not citing “lack of money, lack of human resources, and lack of policies and mechanisms”. VNA … [Read more...] about Bac Giang compiles three scenarios for lychee consumption amid COVID-19

Testing for COVID-19 in Vientiane (Photo: VNA) Da Nang (VNS/VNA) - A donation of 1 billion VND (43,000 USD) will be sent from central Da Nang city to support five localities of Laos – Salavan, Champasak, Attapu, Savannakhet and Sekong – in the fight against COVID-19 . Chairman of the Da Nang City People’s Committee Le Trung Chinh said the cash donation will help provinces in Laos ease the financial burden of COVID-19 preventive measures amid the outbreak in Laos. Earlier, the city delivered medical equipment to support the hardest-hit Vietnamese provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang. Mass testing has been rapidly conducted at industrial zones and living quarters and for taxi drivers since last week with more than 290,000 people being tested. The samples of 13,000 of the total 25,000 workers in industrial zones and parks in the city were negative with SARS-COV-2. The remaining results are pending. Meanwhile, neighbouring Quang Nam province began easing COVID-19 … [Read more...] about Da Nang donates 43,000 USD to aid Laos’ COVID-19 fight

Selling via online platforms helps The Coffee House retain its customers during the pandemic. Vietnamese people spent more than $2.28 billion on tea and coffee in 2020. — Photo courtesy of The Coffee House Despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, competition between coffee chains in Viet Nam has become increasingly fierce with more giants trying to grab a slice of the lucrative market. Masan, owned by billionaire Nguyen Dang Quang, Novaland of Bui Thanh Nhon and Tran Kim Thanh's Kido have all heated up the billion-dollar market by entering recently. In May, The Sherpa, a company owned by Masan, purchased 20 per cent of Phuc Long Joint Stock Company, which owns the Phuc Long brand, one of the country's most famous tea and coffee chains. As the firm spent US$15 million on the deal, the Phuc Long chain was valued at $75 million, a number that surprised many people, according to some insiders. Set up in Bao Loc City, Lam Dong Province in 1968, Phuc Long expanded into the … [Read more...] about Coffee chains still grow amid pandemic

An ornamental fish farm in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: HCM City People's Committee) Hanoi (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City aims to have at least 30 percent of its agriculture cooperatives apply advanced technologies in production, including bio technology, information technology, and automation. The goal is set in the city’s project on developing high-tech agriculture and plant and animal varieties in the 2020-2030 period which was recently approved by the municipal People’s Committee. The project is designed to with the aim of raising the proportion of high-tech agriculture production to 75-80 percent of the city’s total agricultural production value by 2030. By that time, 70 percent of local households and over 80 percent of businesses in agriculture will have applied high tech cultivation and harvest techniques, mechanization and automation in farming, livestock breeding and waste processing, particularly in the production of key agricultural … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City aims to promote hi-tech use in agriculture cooperatives

Promotion of Vietnam’s popular products is going through its own digital transformation The northern mountainous province of Son La’s plum and Yen Chau’s mango are now officially listed on Shopee’s e-commerce platform, with distribution currently limited to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The listing on Shopee’s popular platform is being supported by the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), which helps with product traceability, labelling, and transparency of information. Son La has been preparing to enter the harvest season of fruits such as plums, longans, and mangoes with an output of hundreds of thousands of tonnes. However, COVID-19 has lowered demand and caused issues in the distribution of fresh fruit. Son La is currently the second-largest fruit tree cultivation area in the country, with nearly 73,000 hectares of plantations. Many fruit products of the province are not only widely consumed in the domestic market but also … [Read more...] about Trading with a digital tint