Due to traditional free-range farming practices, interbreeding severely diluted the purebred Van Pa pig population.

Farmers in central Vietnam are turning unproductive rice fields into black apple snail ponds, building a 25-hectare farming hub that now generates more than $758,000 a year.

Perched high amid the clouds and mountain winds of Son Luong commune in Lao Cai province, Giang Pang village was once defined by hardship and deprivation. Today, this Hmong community is taking on a new vitality.

Do Thi Xuan Dieu left a job paying more than $750 a month to return to Can Tho and find new value in a fruit often left to fall unwanted. Two years of experimentation later, her dried lekima earned four-star OCOP status.

The Government has proposed consolidating four national target programs into a single $30.7 billion initiative for the 2026-2035 period.

Once struggling on hillside farms, Raglai families in Khanh Hoa took loans and switched to durian. Their gamble is now delivering harvests worth hundreds of millions of dong.

Hidden beneath lush green leaves, giant gourds weighing 5-10kg lie across the fields. Grown for seeds worth around $15 per kilogram, the crop is opening up a promising new source of income for farmers in Dak Lak.

Once a survival food during the lean season, mountain yam is now generating new income for highland communities in northern Vietnam through value-added processing.

Vietnam has built hundreds of water supply systems in ethnic minority areas, yet clean water shortages remain one of the biggest obstacles to improving living conditions.

Spotted deer farming is emerging as a new economic opportunity for ethnic minority households in central Vietnam, supported by local authorities and market partnerships.

A young Thai ethnic entrepreneur in Dak Lak has turned a small family chili plot into a 10-ha export production area that brings in billions of dong each year.

Amid the rolling mountains of Vietnam's northwestern region, when the first rains arrive after weeks of dry weather, Co Hon village in Muong Lan Commune, Dien Bien Province enters its annual tea harvesting season.

Nguyen Ngoc Giau’s durian orchard in An Giang has opened its doors to hundreds of visitors daily, selling durian at prices double or triple the market rate.

Communities in the buffer zone of Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park are adding value to their honey through quality standards, branding and intellectual property protection.

From the hillsides at the foot of historic Pha Din Pass, macadamia trees are greening many areas in Dien Bien, opening a path to wealth for highland communities.

Better roads have done more than improve transport in Quang Ninh's remote Dao villages - they have helped spark a shift from dependence on state support to self-reliance, entrepreneurship and community-led development.

Providing domestic water for ethnic minority regions and mountainous areas in 2026–2030 is not only about building more facilities, but about ensuring people have clean, stable, safe water that can be used year-round.

Three provinces from different regions have identified the same obstacle to Vietnam's integrated National Target Program: implementation, not policy design, is now the biggest challenge.

Vietnam's Minister of Ethnic and Religious Affairs has urged Khanh Hoa Province to prioritise investment in ethnic minority communities while preparing resources for the next phase of the national target programme.