Livestock:

In recent years, snake farming has become the main source of income for hundreds of households in snake-farming villages in Vinh Phuc Province. However, due to the influence of Covid-19, many farming households are facing hardships because their products cannot be sold.

Currently, products of these snake-farming villages mainly depend on the Chinese market. However, since the outbreak of Covid-19, wildlife was thought to be related to the new strain of corona virus, so China issued a ban on the sale and consumption of wildlife products. When the main market stopped buying, snake farmers were in a difficult situation.

Typically, Vinh Son Village, a long-standing snake-farming village which is famous all over the world by raising and processing snake products, has about 800 farming households with a total number of nearly 1 million parental snakes and commercial snakes. In 2019, the value from snake breeding in Vinh Son Commune accounts for over 92% of the total value of animal husbandry in the whole commune. However, due to the influence of Covid-19, many households in this village are currently in an unstable situation as their products are not purchased and sold.

Plantation:

Bac Lieu Province has implemented the production of ST24 rice variety in the 2019-2020 crop, which plants rice on shrimp-farming land. In Vinh Phu Tay Commune, Phuoc Long District, the total area of this project is ​​nearly 200 hectares. In Loc Ninh Commune, Hong Dan District, the total area is about 120 hectares.

Through initial evaluation, the rice variety of ST24 has good resistance to alum and pest conditions. Its productivity is 6.2 to 7.7 tons/hectare, and the profit is about VND31 - 39 million/hectare/crop. Compared to other rice varieties, the profit of ST24 is very high.

According to its target, Bac Lieu Province will plant ST24 and ST25 rice varieties to pilot its summer-autumn crop and rice on shrimp-farming land project in 2020. Time for sowing ST24, ST25 in summer-autumn rice crop will be around May 2020. Time for sowing ST24 and ST25 for rice on shrimp-farming land project is in September 2020 in about 3,500 hectares.

Fruits:

Hanoi City currently has more than 3,000 hectares of banana, one of its four specialty crops. Currently, more than 70% of Hanoi's banana area grows tissue-cultivated banana varieties. Of which, there are 300 hectares of tissue-cultivated banana with high-tech applications and growing area eligible for export to some countries such as South Korea and Japan.

Van Nam Commune, Phuc Tho District is one of the largest banana-growing areas in Hanoi. According to the Van Nam Agricultural Cooperative, tissue-cultivated banana brings an average profit of VND250 million to VND300 million/hectare/year.

South American green tissue-cultivated banana is especially suitable for the land of Kim Son Commune, Gia Lam District. Thus, the yield and quality here are higher than other areas. On average, each hectare of banana plant with tissue culture can bring a profit from VND300 million to VND350 million, or even higher prices.

Farmers, Agriculture, Countryside:

According to functional departments of Ho Chi Minh City, in the past 3 months, despite the disease epidemic, Ho Chi Minh City still has 40 newly established businesses operating in the field of agriculture - forestry – fishery. They bring the total number of operating businesses in this field in the city to 1,722.

From the beginning of the year until now, the city’s value of agricultural production increases by 4.3% over the same period. In particular, cultivation increases by 6.7%; husbandry increases by 0.7%; fishery increases by 7%. The production of bird's nest increases with 3,550 kilograms of nests, up 26.8% compared to the same period last year.

Living and Environment:

According to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting of Vietnam, there has been no rain since the beginning of March. The capacity of most irrigation reservoirs in the Central Highlands region reaches 50-85% of the designed capacity. The common capacity of hydroelectric reservoirs accounts for 40-95% of the reservoir capacity.

Meanwhile, the water resources on some rivers such as the Dak Bla River in Kon Tum Province are 57% lower than the average of many years, and the Serepok River is 59% lower than the average of many years.

Due to the 100% shortage of rainwater, the flow of rivers is low. Thus, there is drought due to lack of rainwater in Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong Provinces.

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