(VOVWORLD) - Hai Duong is one of major farm produce hubs of the Red River Delta. Since it became a COVID-19 hotbed, with travel restriction in place, the circulation of agricultural products has been seriously affected. The provincial Department of Industry and Trade has worked out a plan for agricultural logistics based on ensuring epidemic prevention and control from harvesting to distribution.

(VOVWORLD) - Female members of Tong Bong Brocade Weaving Cooperative in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, have begun a new production season following the Lunar New Year. They are diligently making new items to meet the signed contracts and, at the same time, preserving the traditional craft of brocade weaving.

(VOVWORLD) - Approved in May 2018, the One Commune-One Product program (OCOP) aims to develop rural economies to help realize the national goal of building new-style rural areas. Soc Trang is one of the provinces with the most OCOP products in the Mekong Delta region. The goods have been introduced nationwide, thus enhancing the production, trading, and competitiveness of local enterprises.

(VOVWORLD) - Dak Ro Wa commune in Kon Tum province, home to Ba Na ethnic people, has greatly changed after 10 years of applying Vietnam’s new-style rural development program. Most of the local roads have been paved. Medical stations, schools, village halls, markets, private homes, stilt houses, and communal houses have been renovated or repaired. Vast hills of coffee, litsea, maize, cassava, and acacia trees are under cultivation.

(VOVWORLD) - As farming is doing ‘toil and moil’ work all year round for a long time, many farmers want their children to get a university education escape from the paddy fields, and maybe make a fortune. But recently in a reverse trend, young people are choosing to start up a business in agriculture and many have developed successful models.

(VOVWORLD) - Gardeners growing peaches in Nhat Tan village and kumquat trees in Tu Lien village in Hanoi's Tay Ho district are busy preparing thousands of peach blossom trees and kumquat pots for the Tet (Lunar New Year) market.

(VOVWORLD) - The “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) program in Lao Cai province has helped boost the incomes of rural people. The program has proved particularly effective combined with tourism. VOV reports:

(VOVWORLD) - Since 2016 the Hanoi Agricultural Development Center has been developing supply chains for safe agricultural products. In 2019 it initiated a 2-year agricultural development plan. Hanoi's agricultural sector now leads the nation in building agricultural production chains.

(VOVWORLD) - With the largest rice-shrimp area in Vietnam, Ca Mau province has a great advantages in developing safe rice farming to meet export standards. Ca Mau has successfully built the "Thoi Binh safe rice" brand, which has been recognized by the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam. To further promote the brand, the province plans to build a safe rice material zone on shrimp farming land.

(VOVWORLD) - Son Dong commune in Ben Tre city has been paved. Its bamboo bridges have been replaced by reinforced concrete bridges, making it easier for cars to reach each hamlet. Spacious houses and schools have been built. These changes are part of an effort by the local Party Committee, government, and people to make Son Dong a new-style rural village and a model for Ben Tre province, the birthplace of the 1960 Uprising.