Last updated: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – VFA and farmers are still arguing about how much VFA should pay farmers for the winter-spring rice crop.
Mekong Delta farmers have already harvested two-thirds of the winter-spring rice crop. It’s been a bountiful year; the farmers are averaging 6.2 to 6.5 tonnes per hectare. But, as always,...
Last updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
HCM City has hundreds of flooded sites caused by flood tides and rains. Total losses caused by floods are estimated at over 14 trillion dong (nearly $780 million) a year.
Floods cause great losses to the city, directly and indirectly, according to a research work from the Institute for Irrigation and Environment. The research, based...
