CAN THO (VNS)— Farmers in two Can Tho communes increased their profit margin by almost 50 per cent in last year's winter-spring crop by pooling land and other resources. A conference held in the Mekong Delta city on Wednesday also heard
This helps them to save valuable water. Local farmers in the central highlands of Viet Nam, the world's second-largest coffee producer, use empty condensed milk cans to measure rainfall and put upturned plastic bottles on the ground to measure soil moisture. They
CUU LONG DELTA (VNS)— Local authorities plan to dredge rivers and canals in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta to create more irrigation water for 300,000ha of newly planted rice crops, which face saline-water intrusion and a water shortage. Disease outbreaks among