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Mekong Delta farmers grow new flower varieties for Tet

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are growing more new flower varieties for the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which falls on January 25.

Bitter days for Delta farmers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sugarcane farmers in the Mekong Delta are facing losses during the harvest of the 2018-19 sugarcane crop because of low prices and yield.

Delta farmers earn high profits from clean shrimp-rice cultivation model

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in Ben Tre Province’s Thanh Phu District have earned high profits from rotating rice and shrimp cultivation in the same rice field.  

Belated floods disappoint Mekong Delta farmers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Every year, the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta awaits its “flooding season” with bated breath.

Beleaguered Delta farmers sell off land

VietNamNet Bridge – With agriculture remaining generally unprofitable, many farmers in the Mekong Delta are forced to give up farming and sell their lands, causing concern among local authorities.

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