Economy

Binh Dai District authorities assist farmers with cocoa seedlings

Posted: Fri, 10/25/2012 - 14:10

In an effort to assist farmers with cocoa seedlings for blending growing in coconut groves, Binh Dai District’s Agricultural and Rural Development Department has collaborated with communal Farmer Societies to supply local farmers with more than 60 thousand cocoa seedlings to blendingly grow in more than 90 thousand hectares of coconut groves

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Ben Tre inaugurates development plans for 2020

Posted: Fri, 03/11/2011 - 14:40

Mr Nguyen Van Hieu, the Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committee, on Thursday, March 10, 2011, resided over an open meeting including officials from the provincial departments and chairpersons of district People’s Committees and Ben Tre City. The meeting is intended to publicize Ben Tre province’s economical and social development plans for the duration between now and 2020. The plans have been approved by the central government and signed into effect by the Prime Minister on January 13, 2011.

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Ben Tre's rice production in the first half of year

Posted: Wed, 08/12/2011 - 18:23

According to Ben Tre People’s Committee’s report of the first half of year, during the same period of time, the province finished harvesting the 2008 ten-month crop and 2008-2009 winter-spring crop of rice on a total area of 86,895 hectares and an output of 266,370 metric tonnes. At the moment, the 2009 summer-autumn crop has finished sowing on total area of 24,157 hectares, or 93.3% of the target area of 35,000 hectares. 90% of the rice breed to grow for commercial use fall into the followings: OM 3536, OM 2517, OM 4498, OM 4285, OM 6073, OM 6561, OM 6162, OM 5930, OM 4668, OM 4900, MTL 499.

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Opening of Ben Tre's fruits and trees festival

Posted: Sat, 05/23/2011 - 08:43

An annual festival of fruits and tree seedlings has been opened in the main square ground of Cho Lach District, BenTreProvince. The occasion, named "The 9th Festival of Good and Safe Fruits and Tree Seedlings and Agricultural Products of Ben Tre Province", is officially running from May 28 through May 31, 2009.

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Number of telephone subscribers per 100 population on the increase thanks to mobile phone boom

Posted: Fri, 10/26/2012 - 13:53

Ben Tre province may have achieved 42.4 telephone subscribers per 100 population by the end of this year, according to the Dong Khoi newspaper. The number of telephone subscribers includes 15.9 fixed lines and 26.5 mobile phone subscribers.

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Ben Tre encourages large-scale livestock farms

Posted: Tue, 10/14/2010 - 16:25

Of late, cattle and poultry diseases have been effectively controlled in Ben Tre. Dangerous epidemics such as blue ear pig, foot and mouth on cattle, avian flu on poultry and the Marek disease on chicken have all been circled in early stage so that they could not spread out in large areas.

Banks to open loans for enterprises to buy in catfish

Posted: Wed, 07/26/2011 - 09:33

The consumption of catfish has dwindled lately causing big difficulties for fish farmers. For a calculation, the total input cost to grow each kilogram of fish now amounts to VND15,000 to VND16,000, while selling prices are effectively pushed down to VND14,300 to VND13,800 per kilogram.

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60% of Ben Tre's fruit area are of high quality

Posted: Tue, 02/11/2011 - 13:48

Ben Tre currently has 32,727 hectares of fruit tree area, producing an annual output of more than 365,000 tons of fruit. In the current trend of international economic integration and competition, Ben Tre fruit has to wade its own way through the big sea.

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Ben Tre to step up moving polluting facilities out of town

Posted: Fri, 07/26/2011 - 09:18

On December 27, 2007, the Steering Committee for the Project to move polluting production and trading facilities out of BenTreTownship met for a wrap-up conference of 2007 and to lay out plans and tasks for 2008. The meeting was presided over by Mr Nguyen Quoc Bao, Vice Chairman of Ben Tre's People's Committee, who chairs the body.

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Ben Tre economy on fast track after Durian typhoon

Posted: Fri, 07/26/2011 - 09:28

In the first 6 months of this year, Ben Tre's economy has increased by 9.49%, in which Group I of industries (including agriculture, forestry and aquaculture) increased by a mere 2.55%; Group II (including industry and construction) expanded by 17.19%; and Group III (trading and services) boasted the highest of 18.6%. The results reflect an in-time direction by the Province's People's Committee in strongly concentrating on recovering after typhoon Durian last December (causing more than VND3,000 billion of damages, 59% of which were on the agricultural sector).

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