(VOVWORLD) - Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been increasingly difficult to trade and export agricultural products. Businesses in Son La province are promoting the processing and preserving of fruits to reduce the emphasis on fresh fruit sales, create added values, and open up more foreign markets. Dragon eye longans are among the first fruits to hop on this trend.

(VOVWORLD) - The resolution of the Party Committee of Lak district in Dak Lak province on crop and livestock restructuring until 2025 has over the past year opened a path to sustainable poverty reduction for ethnic people in an extremely disadvantaged area. VOV reports on how ethnic people in Lak district have escaped poverty.

(VOVWORLD) - Farmers in Phung Hiep district in Hau Giang province have started breeding fish in their rice fields during the annual flood season. The model has created strong profits and helped to improve the soil for the next winter-spring rice crop. The floodwaters have arrived now and the locals are releasing fish into the rice fields.

(VOVWORLD) - This school year, Kon Tum province has more than 92,000 ethnic minority students. In the province’s remote, disadvantaged areas, many children lack textbooks, clothes, and school supplies for school. Teachers at Nguyen Van Cu primary school in the extremely poor commune of Dak Pxi in Dak Ha district are finding ways to ensure that the local children attend school.

(VOVWORLD) - Border communes in Phieng Cai hamlet, home to Mong ethnic people, in Moc Chau district, Son La province, have greatly changed. These days they have a variety of services, shops, and even high-rise buildings. Roads connecting communes and villages have been paved, making travel easier. The green of pomelo, orange, and longan trees and fields of corn and tea covering the hillsides reflects the growing prosperity brought by a restructuring of crops and animal husbandry.

(VOVWORLD) - For the past five years, Hung Yen has been focused on restructuring its agricultural sector, creating development breakthroughs, and increasing the productivity, quality, and value for a variety of farm produce. As a result, local agriculture has adopted modern production models, improving local people’s incomes and standard of living. For the next five years, Hung Yen will continue to look for ways to boost agricultural production and give local farmers a life of even greater comfort.

(VOVWORLD) - Van Lam, a key industrial district of Hung Yen province, has preserved the ancient beauty of the Vietnamese village, with banyan trees, a river wharf, a communal yard, and traditional crafts and customs. Join us on a tour of Van Lam to see how craft villages have been changing and contributing to local economic development.

(VOVWORLD) - Dong Thoi, a remote commune in Cai Nuoc district, Ca Mau province, has found a way out of poverty. Blood cockle farming has radically changed Dong Thoi and improved people's lives.

(VOVWORLD) - A young couple, who left behind the hustle and bustle of city life, have turned Hon My farm in Thanh Hoa province, into a place where people can experience a new way of life that’s closer to nature and environmentally friendly. VOV’s Phuong Chi visited the farm and talked to the couple.

(VOVWORLD) - Thap Muoi district in Dong Thap province has been taking drastic steps to find outlets for farm produce and protect local farmers against the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.