Agriculture Rural

Help urged for cashew industry

HANOI – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent a petition to the central bank governor proposing cash-strapped cashew processors and exporters be allowed to have their bank loans rescheduled.

Farmers struggle to access capital

Local farmers say they are still finding it hard to access much-needed financial support despite numerous policies recently adopted by the government to assist farmers

New plan developed to combat spread of bird flu

A map to identify the different strains of bird-flu virus in each locality will be completed by the end of this month, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan has said.

PM wants tighter control over spread of bird flu

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has sent an urgent message asking local authorities to double efforts to control outbreaks of bird flu in 11 provinces across the country.

Tea to brew up high profits in 2012

Tea and coffee and are two commodities forecast to bring big profits to investors this year thanks to their 100 percent localisation scale, economists said.

Timber traffickers targeted by forest management body

The forest management sector is planning stricter measures to fight timber trafficking following a recent spate of illegal activities.

National bird flu programme underway

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Dec. 8 launched the Integrated National Action Programme on Avian Influenza, Pandemic Preparedness and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases (AIPED) for the 2011-2015 period.

Tons of litchi leaves bought for unclear reasons

Farmers in the Luc Nam and Luc Ngan Districts of northern Bac Giang Province are selling litchi leaves to traders without clear knowledge of what the latter plan to do with them

Farms, rural areas targeted to receive loans

Investing in agriculture and rural areas will be among the leading objectives of the banking sector next year, industry insiders say.

Vietnam to build livestock disease map

HCMC – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is collecting ideas from related agencies to prepare for the promulgation of an animal and poultry disease map.

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From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of