January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
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July 15, 2011
Duong Minh Thao from Dak Lak Province uproots his marijuana plants after learning they are considered an illegal narcotic. Many farmers in rural parts of the Mekong Delta and Central Highlands’ Dak Lak and Dak Nong Provinces have been cultivating marijuana without knowing what it is or that it is illegal in Vietnam.  In early May, Dak Lak police seized [...]
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June 22, 2011
A five-year study found that Vietnam spends up to 3 percent of its gross domestic product on mitigating the effects of environmental pollution A woman skims rubbish out of a polluted river in Hanoi. A national environmental report has warned that increasing environmental pollution will hinder Vietnam’s economic growth. Dang Thi Thanh Loan’s sore [...]
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February 4, 2010
After five years of operation, the Vietnam-Belgium Dairy project has brought about a 42% increase in milk production and a 100% increase in the prices . . . “Rather than trying to increase the number of cows by providing loans to the farmers, we decided to help farmers get more milk out of each cow”.Raf [...]
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December 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Agricultural organizations say authorities have allowed pollution from a Taiwanese-owned company to destroy a local river without forcing the firm to pay compensation to local farmers. Authorized agencies have taken too long to estimate the damages caused to farmland by Vedan Vietnam’s illegal waste water discharge into the Thi Vai River, said Tran [...]
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December 6, 2009
Agricultural organizations say authorities have allowed pollution from a Taiwanese-owned company to destroy a local river without forcing the firm to pay compensation to local farmers. Authorized agencies have taken too long to estimate the damages caused to farmland by Vedan Vietnamâs illegal waste water discharge into the Thi Vai River, said Tran Van Quang, [...]
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November 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A new decree on rice exports may be issued soon. Strangely, the Farmers’ Union has not been officially consulted about its provisions. Tuoi tre interviewed the Chairman of the Vietnamese Farmers’ Union (VFU), Nguyen Quoc Cuong, to find out more. Cuong said that the decree has gone through four drafts, but the Trade [...]
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November 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many tra fish processing plant owners are now advertising to sell their bussineses. The death of tra fish ponds means that a lot of fish processing lines and processing plants have to shut down or be sold. It’s not easy to find buyers Luan, the owner of Binh Minh tra fish processing plant in Dong [...]
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November 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Eco-friendly and economically beneficial farming methods in the Mekong Delta is leading the way to more sustainable rural development.The sun is blazing down but Vo Thi Nhieu and her husband are absorbed in consolidating the levees to prepare their newly harvested rice field for the upcoming shrimp crop.The work is harder than usual [...]
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October 28, 2009
At least eight Palestinians were injured Tuesday when Israeli settlers attacked villagers harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said. A Palestinian man medicates a Palestinian woman after several Palestinian farmers clash with Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Nablus, Oct. 27, 2009. (Xinhua/Nidal Eshtayeh)The injured sustained slight to moderate [...]
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