(CDC) - Rubber, coffee are the main crops and strategy of many southeast provinces and the red soil Central Highlands region, contribute to the development of the local economy. However, the coffee and rubber prices fell continuously making farmers intend to cut them off, to switch to plant pepper and some other crops. This not only affects productivity, production of rubber and coffee but also disturb the structure of plants and many unpredictable consequences left.
(CDC) - Some information resources said that many farmers in Ben Tre massively cut down cocoa trees to switch to green skin pomelo, lemon, guava because of higher income, on Aug 21st, talked with NTNN, Mr. Phan Van Khong - Director of Ben Tre Extension Center said that this information was incorrect.
(CDC) - At the end of the crop year, coffee exports volume in the whole country in three recent months reduced significantly. Thus, the domestic coffee market in the Central Highlands provinces was not bustle as the first and middle time of the crop.
(CDC) - Impaired biodiversity, infertile soil, pollution ... are the problems that Dak Lak agricultural production facing with. Accordingly, the building an organic agriculture (Organic Agriculture) is a necessary demand, but scaling up this model is still rare.
(CDC) - Due to the low groove through the North Central combined with strong Southwest wind caused heavy rain in many places in the Central Highlands provinces. The day-long rains incessantly caused rising moisture, fast-growing foliage, low light photosynthesis, is favorable condition to black fungus parasitic on the coffee stem grow and the coffee trees are hard to supply nutrients to provide coffee fruit, it is the cause of dropping premature fruit in hundreds hectares coffee.
(CDC) - Coffee prices in the raw materials area in the Central Highlands provinces rose unexpectedly on the first day of month August 2014 to 42 million VND / ton, far exceeded the previous month’s peak about 40.5 million VND / ton set on 8-7 and above 2.5 million VND / ton compared with the previous day 31-7. Unfortunately, high prices do not last long. Yesterday, Thursday August 7th, domestic coffee prices fell to around 38 million VND / ton.
(CDC) - Cocoa prices rose to the peak during the past 3 years when having the rumor that chocolate manufacturers need to increase the amount of storage in the context of suppling cocoa from the West African limited.
(CDC) - Vietnam Coffee has high export potential, it could become a the world’s largest coffee exporter if overcome some of its shortcomings.
(CDC) - The value of exporting pepper in the past 7 months reached 888 million, the growth rates is the highest in the key export commodities, to 46.1%
(CDC) - At the conference, "Lessons Learned in Ben Tre and the solutions for sustainable cocoa development in Mekong Delta" held in Ben Tre on July 31th, Deputy Director of Horticulture (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Mr. Nguyen Van Hoa confirmed that the demand of cocoa beans in the world market is very large and this is the most sustainable intercrop tree under coconut trees, orchards today.
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