By: Genevieve Donnellon-May Hun Manet, the new Cambodia prime minister and son of the previous prime minister and former military general Hun Sen, recently announced the implementation of a new strategic policy for local agriculture development. Under the new policy, the national government aims for Cambodia to become one of the world’s top ten agriculture-producing…
The Mekong Delta region is facing a staggering economic setback, with researchers estimating annual losses exceeding VND70 trillion ($2.96 billion) due to saltwater intrusion. The findings, presented by the Water Resources Science Institute under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment at a Friday conference on water resource management, were based on sophisticated mathematical…
Saltwater intrusion from the sea into the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s water bodies is expected to peak in March, according to the Directorate of Water Resources. The country’s largest producer of rice, fruit and seafood suffers from the intrusion in the dry season every year. The directorate said saltwater with salinity of 4 grammes per…
By Jonathan Kuba The tiny crayfish, a freshwater crustacean commonly known in the United States as “Louisiana crawfish,” “mudbugs” or “red swamp crayfish” (Procambarus clarkii) is native to North America and Mexico. It’s larger cousin, another freshwater crustacean is native to Australia and commonly known as “yabbies” or “red claw crayfish” (Cherax quadricarinatus). …
The Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) is no longer a major power producer as it has contributed only 11% of electricity to the national grid this year. According to the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (Ministry of Industry and Trade), of the national power system’s capacity of nearly 80,000MW, state-owned enterprises including EVN, Vietnam Oil…
Vietnam has been making policy changes to open up the electricity industry to private investors, but still remains far from creating a competitive market. Until 2006 state-owned Vietnam Electricity (EVN) owned all power plants in the country, but its monopoly has been reducing since, and it now only accounts directly or indirectly for around 37.6%…
Yum Brands-owned KFC Thailand announces it is working with Meat Zero to create new plant-based fried chicken menus to be initially served at two KFC Green Stores in Thailand. Thai pork and poultry giant Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CPF), Thailand’s largest agro-industrial food business, unveiled MEAT ZERO this May with goals of becoming the top…
HANOI, July 17 (Reuters) – Vietnam received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) this month, a milestone for the energy-hungry country, but various hurdles mean it could take years for imported gas to ease the country’s long-running power shortages. Disagreement over pricing, plant construction delays and lack of supply contracts are dogging the…
Leaving space for mangroves among the shrimp farms in the Vietnam Mekong Delta has been a win-win for aquaculture and the environment, but farmers say the economic benefits of the model are slowing Under a canopy of mangroves, Tran Van Thac’s black tiger shrimps scuttle about the clean waters of their pond, devouring any organic…
Climate change might make growing produce indoors via vertical farming a necessity. But despite taking in more than a billion dollars in venture capital investment, most companies in the industry seem to be failing, unable to turn a profit on lettuce in a bubble that seems to be bursting. When workers arrived at Fifth Season,…
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The Vietnam government is reportedly concerned about legal action from solar investors if its new power development plan does not prove ambitious enough. Vietnam’s latest draft energy plan prepares for 8.7 GW of new solar between 2021 and 2030, but the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade is reportedly fearful of legal action by solar…
23/02/2022 08:03 GMT+7 A leader of Japan’s power producer EREX said the corporation is seeking to invest in biomass power in Vietnam, which holds great potential for biomass power development. Honda Hitoshi (R), chairman and general director of EREX, at a meeting with Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien. – Photo:…
Vietnam’s top shrimp producer, Minh Phu Seafood, has partnered with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) to implement a project that combines rice and shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta region. The Mekong Delta Integrated Rice and Aquaculture Project is aimed at mitigating climate-change impacts…
The freshwater and marine fish catch in the first quarter of the year was 960,000 tonnes, indicating a drop for all types of fish compared to the same period last year. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ report released on April 5 stated that freshwater fisheries along the Tonle Sap river yielded 1,310 tonnes,…
According to the latest Global Climate Risk Index report, published in January, Vietnam’s economy is among the most vulnerable in the world to the impacts of climate change. Another report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) indicates that Vietnam’s climate challenges are much greater than usually suggested. The Global Climate Risk Index report…
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is taking various steps to develop climate change-resilient aquaculture, setting its sights on expanding the local aquaculture area by 2,500 ha to reach 40,000 ha by 2030. The province also aims to generate around 420 million VND (18,230 USD) in average earnings per ha over the next decade….
As well as being farmed for human consumption, animal feed and biofuels, seaweed plays a role in carbon sequestration. In short, carbon is stored in the tissues of seaweed and, when plants die and sink to the ocean floor, the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is buried along with the biomass. According to one international…
Vietnam has completed an updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) with plans to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions 9 percent by 2030 in an attempt to respond to climate change. Tang The Cuong, Director of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Department of Climate Change, said Vietnam had completed the updated NDC despite complications caused…
