VOV.VN - April witnessed Vietnam suddenly boost its imports of a number of products from the Thai market, increasing by 210% over the previous month and up 622% over April last year, according to preliminary statistics released by the General Department of Customs.

Indonesia hopes for further cooperation with the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in rice exports and technology in the agricultural sector to increase rice supply in the Southeast Asian region, Indonesian Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman told Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Hieu in Can Tho on May 20.

The Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jacob Jensen, is leading a high-level delegation to visit Vietnam on May 14-16.

The second phase of the Gender-Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT 2) programme was launched in the northern mountainous province of Son La on May 10.

Vietnamese agricultural products were on display at the 41st edition of Macfrut, an international trade fair for the fruit and vegetable sector, in Rimini city of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region from May 8 to 10.

Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Do Thanh Trung has expressed his wish for the support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) in optimising investment resources for agriculture and rural development.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG-SANTE), in collaboration with the Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point (Vietnam SPS), held a conference disseminating regulations on imports of agricultural products and foods of plant and animal origin into the EU market on May 7.

Nearly 55,800 tonnes of agricultural products were exported via border gates in the northern province of Lang Son during the recent five-day holidays starting April 27.

VOV.VN - Vietnam racked up a trade surplus of US$4.74 billion from agro-forestry-aquatic exports during the opening four months of the year, representing a year on year rise of 71.5%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A meeting took place in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on April 25 to introduce the project “Smart Agro-ecological Transformation of Farming Systems towards Resilience and Sustainability in Middle and Coastal Zones of the Vietnam Mekong Delta (STAR-FARM)”.