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Fantastic terrace rice fields in October
(11:05:49 AM 27/10/2014)Mu Cang Chai, a district of Yen Bai Province in the nation’s northern upland, has become one of the most popular destinations for travelers and photographers to capture beautiful images of terrace rice fields and daily activities of ethnic minority peoples.
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PM okays $22mil. budget to preserve rice fields
(12:32:39 PM 20/05/2015)Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a budget of 470 billion VND (about 22 million USD) to help preserve and develop rice fields in nine cities and provinces across the country.
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Fertile land swallowed by IZs, rice fields contaminated by industrial waste
(11:11:57 AM 04/12/2014)Farmers in the suburbs of HCM City have lost their livelihood because their cultivation land has been poisoned by industrial waste from nearby industrial zones.
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HCM City: Industrial production drives rice fields to death
(20:46:39 PM 08/11/2012)Farmers in the districts of Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon and Cu Chi complain that they have to leave land uncultivated or keep agricultural production at a moderate level, because the water sources have become seriously polluted.
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Admiring Hoang Su Phi terraced fields in rainy season
(09:30:45 AM 05/08/2014)Tourists may have been once suggested to visit Hoang Su Phi in the harvest season in autumn to admire the endless glistening yellowish color of terraced rice fields.
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Saltwater affects 20,000ha of rice land in Ca Mau
(17:22:52 PM 07/05/2014)Saltwater has intruded into nearly 20,000 hectares of rice fields in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Van Su has said.
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Poetic Mai Chau Valley in the new season
(14:31:07 PM 17/04/2015)The fields in Mai Chau Valley, Hoa Binh Province are in the new rice season. Everywhere farmers are transplanting rice seedlings.
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Wonderful scenes in Bac Son Valley
(10:34:42 AM 14/07/2015)In July, when the rice fields in the valley of Bac Son in Lang Son Province are changing color from green to yellow, it’s time for travelers and photographers to capture the beautiful moments of the year.
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Mekong farmers switch to lucrative alternatives
(09:49:04 AM 02/08/2014)A switch to growing high-value crops on low-yield rice fields has paid dividends for farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.
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Vietnamese prefer foreign rice
(11:01:23 AM 27/07/2013)Even though Vietnam has hundreds of varieties of rice, many housewives in HCM City still prefer rice products labeled with foreign names such as Thai fragrant rice, American scented rice or Japanese rice.
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New rice ceremony of the Raglai
(16:26:40 PM 20/07/2015)The Raglai people have several ceremonies relating to the life cycle of a man or a tree. The new rice ceremony is the biggest event of all. After harvesting and stockpiling rice in warehouses, the Raglai organize a ritual to thank the heaven God, genies, and ancestors for blessing them with a bumper crop.
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Mekong hydropower plants deprive farmers of their livelihood
(16:21:11 PM 08/09/2014)The influences of the hydropower dams on the Mekong River on Vietnamese farmers are becoming more apparent: floods and salinity have penetrated rice fields, aquatic resources have decreased, and alluvium cannot reach the delta.
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Viet Nam to create prominent rice brand
(17:24:57 PM 01/06/2015)Viet Nam is aiming to develop a Vietnamese rice brand that would become the world's leading rice by 2030, according to a project approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last week.
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White-leg shrimp hatcheries threaten fresh-water areas
(15:24:36 PM 05/07/2014)Despite warnings by concerned agencies, farmers in the southern provinces have been rushing to convert large areas of rice fields and catfish ponds into shrimp ponds, threatening, some say, the biodiversity of their areas.
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Nine provinces to get rice from national reserves
(15:34:59 PM 07/03/2015)Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the finance ministry to release more than 6,930 tonnes of rice from the national reserves for nine provinces during this year's fallow period.
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Industrial production leads to rice yield loss
(14:18:57 PM 26/05/2013)The reverse of the “industrialization medal” is that it has brought big corollaries to the rice farming.
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