The construction of Lavifarm, the first farmer support center in the country, began on April 26 in Binh Phu commune, Cang Long district, the Mekong River Delta province of Tra Vinh. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Lavifarm center - Photo: VGP The event was attended by Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan. Covering an area of nearly 17 hectares, the project consists of four main areas: a supermarket, a service area, an area for processing and packaging projects, and a store. The Lavifarm center will play an important role in supporting and consulting farmers regarding reasonable suitable crops, technical solutions and agricultural materials as well as the processing and preservation of agricultural products. The center will have a capacity to transplant one million soft-bodied plants per year and cultivate seedlings for 1.5 million trees per year along with packaging 15.6 tonnes of vegetables per day. Its 10-hectare … [Read more...] about First farmer support center constructed in Tra Vinh province
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Mekong Delta’s eastern coastal sub-region boasts huge potential for tourism
At the conference (Photo: baomoi) Tra Vinh (VNA) – Boasting a coastline of more than 162 kilometres with criss-crossing canals, lush carpet of orchard gardens and kaleidoscope of ethnic cultures, the Mekong Delta’s eastern coastal sub-region has huge potential to develop tourism, heard a recent conference held in Tra Vinh province. However, more than 200 experts at the November 17 event held that local tourism development is a far cry from its natural advantages. Last year, the sub-region welcomed only 4.93 million out of 34.5 million visitors to the Mekong Delta, with tourism revenue accounting for 23.3 percent of the region’s total 11.3 trillion VND (488.78 million USD). Tenuous connection within the tourism sector as well as shortage of professional human resources and attractive policies to attract domestic and foreign investments should be handled to boost the non-smoke industry’s development in the sub-region, they said. According to Assoc. Prof. and … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta’s eastern coastal sub-region boasts huge potential for tourism
Numerous promotions up for grabs at Saigon-Vinh Long Hotel
Numerous promotions up for grabs at Saigon-Vinh Long HotelBy Anh Tien The four-star Saigon-Vinh Long Hotel is seen from the Co Chien River - PHOTO: ANH TIEN HCMC - The Saigon-Vinh Long Hotel under Saigontourist Holding Company, the only four-star hotel in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long, is offering a host of promotions. Room rate promotion The room rate is VND900,000 per room per night for walk-in guests and VND750,000 for travel agents, including a 10% VAT, welcome drink, breakfast, tea, coffee, drinking water, access to swimming pool and fitness center, and wifi. The promotion is applicable to bookings from now to November 10, and stays from now until December 20. Wedding service promotion Customers booking a wedding party from now to December 31 with each 10-seater table costing VND2.5 million or above will receive extra promotions. Bookings must be made between now to November 10. Event promotions Those customers organizing events at the hotel can ask for a … [Read more...] about Numerous promotions up for grabs at Saigon-Vinh Long Hotel
New automatic sprinklers a boon for Trà Vinh veggie, peanut farmers
Viet Nam News by Hoàng Nguyên TRÀ VINH – On his 2,000sq m vegetable farm in Trà Vinh Province, Thạch Bảy was working to the tune of a revolutionary song playing on his old mobile phone. He was watering baby lettuce that had been planted a week ago on his farm in sleepy An Quảng Hữu commune Trà Cú District. “I love music. I usually listen to music while I’m working,” the 60-year-old said as he took out his phone from his front pocket. He and his wife, who grow lettuce, choy sum and Vietnamese spinach on their farm, once earned around VNĐ150,000 (US$7) per day from selling vegetables. Now, however, during the peak harvest season, he makes double that amount (VNĐ300,000) per day, thanks to a new automatic sprinkler system, which has saved irrigation water and reduced the number of working hours. “My work now can be done more quickly and easily. Before the sprinkler was installed, … [Read more...] about New automatic sprinklers a boon for Trà Vinh veggie, peanut farmers
Farmers in Mekong delta chop down sugar-cane because of low price
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Soc Trang Province’s Cu Lao Dung District yesterday said that local farmers have sold out sugar-cane in 3,000 hectare over 6,300 hectare. Sugar-cane consumption is very slow. Overripe sugar-cane trees in gardens in An Thanh 1, 2, 3, An Thanh Dong and An Thanh Nam communes are seen. Farmer Diep Van Tam in An Thanh 2 commune hopelessly said that I have toiled away in the farm for nearly one year; though prices of sugar-cane went down from VND700 a kilogram to VND500 a kilogram, no trader proposed buying. My family had to hire people to cut down the trees, transporting to the factory to sell; at last I suffered a loss of VND15 million ($658), he added. Farmers moaned that they spent VND50-60 million a hectare but because of low price, they suffered losses of VND10-20 million per hectare. Farmers in Tra Vinh province’s Tra Cu District where plant the tree in over 4,000 hectare. Though it is time for harvest, half of … [Read more...] about Farmers in Mekong delta chop down sugar-cane because of low price