Related news from: rice fields

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  Norway funds climate change impact curbs

  (16:10:31 PM 12/07/2013)

  Norway will provide Viet Nam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production.

  Tags: Norway, funds, climate change, impact curbs
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  Delta drought, seawater ruin 6,000ha of rice

  (10:30:36 AM 22/06/2013)

  Drought and seawater intrusion have destroyed nearly 6,000ha of summer-autumn rice in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.
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  HCM City fines noodle makers for using banned chemicals

  (14:11:05 PM 14/08/2013)

  The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has fined three producers of fresh rice noodles for using banned chemicals as well as excessive levels of additives.

  Tags: HCM City, noodle, fine, using banned chemicals,
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  Int’l tourists learn to wrap Chung cake

  (15:52:13 PM 14/02/2015)

  Visitors from the UK, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Korea participated in a Chung cake (square glutinous rice cake) wrapping festival on January 13. The event was organised by The Cliff Resort and Residences in Mui Ne, Phan Thiet City, Binh Thuan province.

  Tags: banh chung, chung cake, making banh chung, foreign tourists,
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  HCMC: officials busy attending meetings, chemicals flowing to canal

  (10:59:16 AM 14/05/2014)

  A heavy rain is all it would take to spread 500 tons of chemicals throughout the Hoc Mon-Bac Binh Chanh Irrigation System, affecting 2,000 hectares of rice land.

  Tags: HCMC, officials, busy, attending, meetings, chemicals, flowing, to canal
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  “Com nam” with roasted sesame – A delicious rustic gift

  (10:07:02 AM 03/02/2015)

  “Com nam” (a Vietnamese rice dish pressed into cylinder or sphere shape) is sold in small alleys in Hanoi by vendors. This dish is very familiar with Vietnamese people.

  Tags: Vietnamese farmers, “Com nam”, vendors,
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  Foreign tourists suggest Saigon’s best food

  (17:07:12 PM 15/06/2015)

  Com tam (broken rice), hu tieu (pork noodle soup), bun thit nuong (noodles with grilled pork), goi cuoi (spring rolls), and che (sweet soup-like dessert) are suggested by foreign tourists as the must-eat foods in HCM City.

  Tags: Foreign, tourists, suggest , Saigon’s , best food
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  Drought forces south-central provinces to halt crop cultivation

  (17:09:07 PM 05/05/2015)

  The agricultural and rural development departments in three southern central provinces said they were not planting the summer-autumn rice and several crops due to prolonged drought.

  Tags: :Drought , forces , south-central, provinces , halt crop , cultivation,
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  Craft villages use street-shop scraps to make tissue paper

  (13:07:01 PM 07/11/2014)

  Phong Khe and Phu Lam, the two largest paper recycling craft villages in the north, produce tissue from recycled paper used at street rice shops.

  Tags: Craft villages, use, street-shop scraps, make, tissue paper, environment, crop
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  Mekong Delta stems drought, saltwater intrusion impacts

  (15:46:21 PM 01/04/2014)

  Mekong Delta provinces are promptly taking measures to cope with drought and saltwater intrusion to minimise negative impacts on 700,000 hectares of rice, scheduled to be grown in April and May. The Southern Institute of Water Resources Research forecasts that from March to May this year, saltwater will intrude about 40 – 50km inland, with droughts becoming more severe across the Mekong Delta region.

  Tags: Mekong Delta, stems drought, saltwater, intrusion impacts,