Israel has shown consistent growth as a major market for Vietnamese seafood. The VIFTA (signed by Vietnam and Israel on July 25, 2023) will provide additional opportunities for Vietnamese seafood.

Both rice and wheat supplies are now facing alarming shortages. The prospect of another world food crisis that would rival those in 2007–08, 1972–74 and 1966–68 is front-page news. In the past three years, the world food economy has been severely stressed by COVID-19 supply disruptions, adverse weather, Russia’s escalation against Ukraine’s grain shipping and storage facilities and the rapid emergence of drought-inducing El Nino. Regional conflicts in Africa, which cut off food supplies to vulnerable populations, have become a constant.

At the beginning of the year, leather and footwear, one of the four commodity groups that account for the largest proportion of Vietnam's export turnover to Canada, has maintained a double-digit growth rate - up 46.6%. However, with great competition from other countries, here, the leather and footwear industry must have a new strategy instead of relying on outsourcing orders.

The event was hosted by the International Rice Research Institute, the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Many foreign retail distributors, promoting strategies to diversify their supply chains and ensure a sustainable and resilient supply, have chosen Vietnam as a strategic location in the global supply chain, according to Ta Hoang Linh, Director of the European-American Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The coffee industry must take action immediately to prevent forest loss and avoid another “yellow card” warning from the EU as with the fisheries sector over illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, said Director of the National Agricultural Extension Centre (NAEC) Le Quoc Thanh.

For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed as a threat to U.S. interests and technological supremacy.

The aim is to build a system to circulate resources in Southeast Asian countries and diversify Japan’s suppliers, by utilising used electronic devices, which contain copper and rare metals.

The Department of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the US Department of Agriculture has just issued a written notice on allowing Vietnam to export coconuts to this market. Accordingly, the US requires that fresh young coconuts from Vietnam exported to the US market must be peeled off the entire green shell and at least 75% of the coir.

The UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) has had a significant impact on Vietnam’s export-oriented industries, driving growth and opening up new opportunities for both countries, experts have said.