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Trunk and root borers have damaged cashew trees in Bình Phước Province’s Bù Gia Mập District. – VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY – Bình Phước Province’s agricultural officials are helping cashew farmers learn new cultivation techniques because of losses incurred in recent years due to pests and inclement weather. The southeastern province is the country’s largest producer of cashews. The local authorities have provided farmer Điểu Choi, who has a 2ha cashew orchard in Bù Gia Mập District’s Phú Nghĩa Commune, pesticides and fertilisers to improve his yield. In the last harvest season, he had a poor yield of 700 kilos of cashew. Choi has learned how to fertilise cashew trees properly, and identify pests and spray pesticides. “I’m following the instructions and hope I’ll have a better yield this year,” he said. Choi’s orchard serves as a model for other agricultural officials in the commune. Nguyễn Văn Huấn, of Phú Nghĩa Commune, said he had cut … [Read more...] about Bình Phước farmers learn new techniques for cashew cultivation

Consumers prefer green vegettable at supermarket. — Photo zing.vn by Khanh Duong HA NOI (VNS) — Every weekend, 21-year-old Nguyen Viet Hung, a senior from Ha Noi-based University of Science and Technology, visits his hometown in the northern province of Hung Yen. What he receives is the joy of gathering with family, and a package full of fresh food. Vegetables, beef, chicken, sausages, pork pies, even dry onions and garlic are carefully selected by his mother from his family farm. Hung does not have to go to the market to buy food. Hung started to worry about the origins of the food he bought at the market in the city four years ago. "When I just entered university, I often bought vegetables and meat at a market near my rented room. These vegetables look suspiciously fresh. My mother said only vegetables with pesticides look very fresh like this." Not until a day when Hung suffered from a terrible stomachache did he realise that he really needed to change his eating … [Read more...] about Consumers favouring natural over artificial food

Nguyễn Văn Hồng and the unharvested morning glory.—VNA/VNS Photo Thu Vân Viet Nam News The morning glory plants stood unharvested. Considering how popular a green vegetable this is across the length and breadth of Viet Nam, it was strange that farmer Nguyễn Mạnh Hồng could not be bothered to cut and sell them. But Hồng is a disheartened man these days. It has been a year since he started growing clean vegetables in his 2,600 square-metre net house in Ha Noi’s Yên Mỹ Commune, Thanh Trì District. When Hồng decided to invest more than VNĐ3 billion (US$130,000) in the net house along with other equipment, he hoped that the increase in demand for safe, organic products would deliver handsome returns. But he has been brought down to earth by a combination of factors that defy simplistic analysis. While there is demand for organic vegetables from increasingly health conscious customers, as also increasing recognition of the environmental benefits of organic farming, … [Read more...] about Organic farmers unable to make a clean break

Nguyễn Hữu Hà nurses his seedless lime garden - the first of its kind in the northern province of Hưng Yên. — VNA/VNS Photo Văn Giáp Viet Nam News by Giáp Hường HƯNG YÊN — When it comes to seedless lime farming in Việt Nam, farmers across the country immediately think about a man with the nick name Hà Chanh Tứ quý (Hà Lime). He was the first person to grow Australian seedless limes in the northern province of Hưng Yên. Nguyễn Hữu Hà, 40 years old, now has over 30 mẫu (each mẫu is equal to 3,600 sq.m) of Persian limes in Tân Dân Commune, Hưng Yên Province. The province is renowned as being the land of longans in Việt Nam with more than 3,000ha of longan harvested annually. Lime farming helps him generate more than VNĐ5 billion (US$218,000) a year, and provides regular work for more than 30 people who get a stable monthly salary of VNĐ4 million. Limes from Hà’s farm are now available in dozens of super markets and supply chains that commit to providing customers with … [Read more...] about Lime is the prize for innovative VN farmer

Do you want to learn how to properly ask for WordPress support? As a WordPress user, there are lots of different places you can go for help. However if you want to get high-quality answers fast, you need to ask the right questions in the right places. In this article, we will show you how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it. How to Properly Ask for WordPress Support and Get It Before asking for WordPress support or help with a specific plugin or theme, it’s important to understand that WordPress is an open source community project. WordPress is free , and so are most of the themes and plugins that you use with it. Everyone is welcome to submit code to WordPress core, or suggest fixes for any bugs or errors in the WordPress platform. Developers can also create their own themes and WordPress plugins , and then share their work on the official WordPress repository. Most of the time, these developers are not part of the official WordPress core team. … [Read more...] about How to Properly Ask for WordPress Support and Get It

Gutenberg 10.0 released this week, February 17, 2021, marking the 100th release of the Gutenberg plugin; the 100th release of a journey that started more than four years ago when Matt announced the project at WordCamp US 2016. Where We Started The past four years have not always been an easy journey. Shipping something this impactful is not easy, and there was precedent for keeping the editor as it was: WordPress had already tried to replace TinyMCE a couple of times already. What would be different this time around? The worry was “not much” and initially, very few people actively joined the project. Six months later came WordCamp Europe 2017 and the first release of the plugin. The editor was nowhere close to being usable, but it “clicked” for some. The reactions to the presentation were hopeful, but afterward, there was a lot of pushback. Gutenberg was (and is) an audacious project. With a project this big it attracted a lot of attention, and it became difficult to discern … [Read more...] about Reflecting on Gutenberg’s 100th Release

Review The new AirPods Max are turning heads with a high price tag and excellent audio quality. But is what you get worth the $549? AirPods Max design AirPods Max come in five different colors, sky blue, green, pink, silver, and space gray. Each color is two-toned, featuring a lighter color on the anodized earcups and a darker one for the headband. AirPods Max have one of the most bespoke designs ever created for a set of headphones. The top portion of the headphones is made of stainless steel before being coated with a premium soft-touch material akin to silicone. The canopy is made from a proprietary mesh that is designed to wrest just atop your head. AirPods Max Each arm of the AirPods Max extend to accommodate user's heads of different sizes. Anodized aluminum makes up the cups themselves, which is lighter than the steel and allows for the svelte anodization Apple is known for. Each of the cushions on the earcups are a similar mesh … [Read more...] about Review: AirPods Max don’t make it easy to justify the price

Vương Quốc Trường of Quản Bạ District in Hà Giang Province, born with brittle bone disease, managed to start his own rabbit farm. — Photo hagiangtv.vn Viet Nam News Nguyễn Trần Bé HÀ GIANG — A Nùng ethnic man born with brittle bones has defied physical limitations to develop his own business in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang. Though his own legs no longer work, Vương Quốc Trường, born in 1986, has a passion for nimble-legged rabbits. His work as a ground-breaking rabbit farmer has been paid off; Trường was amongst the five young candidates selected to represent the province at the fifth “Vietnamese youth study and follow Uncle Hồ’s teachings” ceremony held in HCM City earlier this year. Overcoming fate Trường is the youngest child in his family, with four healthy older siblings. The first year in the primary school, he broke both of his legs after a slight fall that wouldn’t result in such dramatic injuries to a normal child, his father, Vàng Vản … [Read more...] about Brittle-boned man reaps success with self-taught rabbit trade

One Commune, One Product By Kuniharu Yamada Kuniharu Yamada on the Fansipan peak - PHOTOS: SUPPLIED BY KUNIHARU YAMADA Kuniharu Yamada introduces himself as a member of the JICA Volunteer Program in Vietnam. Hello! My name is Kuniharu Yamada. I’m living in Hanoi. After gaining my BS and master’s degree in molecular biology, I took part in the development of several medicines which helped improve the quality of life for patients and some medicines for gene therapy in Japan. Prior to my application for the volunteer program of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), I had finished my MBA program majoring in global business development. I’ve been a volunteer assigned by JICA to work at the Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute (VIRI) since November 2017. After more than 20 years of establishment, VIRI has carried out various projects in 53 cities and provinces throughout Vietnam and supported over 200 production teams in rural areas … [Read more...] about One Commune, One Product

Hoà’s pigs enjoy their natural habitat. - VNS Photo Khoa Thư Viet Nam News By Khoa Thư QUẢNG TRỊ - A herd of pigs runs up a high hill, in front of them, a vast farm spreads out, reaching the horizon. The image may be strange for most Vietnamese people, with the mindset that domestic livestock are usually kept in cages. Nguyễn Thị Hoà’s farm in Triệu Thượng Commune, Quảng Trị Province, offers pigs precious freedom that their fellow animals rarely enjoy. “We are the first and also the only farm in the whole area that rears pigs in their natural habitat,” Hoà said. “They find and eat whatever they like. They run as far as they can, to every corner of this 10 ha farm. Our pork, therefore, has distinct characteristics of colour, taste and balanced fat ratio that normal farms cannot offer,” she added. Pork, however, is not the only specialty offered by Hoà. Up to 1,500 chickens are also farmed on the space. Instead of simply pouring instant pre-mixed food out of bags, … [Read more...] about Vietnamese agriculture, but not as you know it