AgribusinessIndian 5 percent broken parboiled rice reached $387-392 a tonne, Vietnam's hit a two-month high of $440-450 and Thailand's $480, with India's crop possibly set to shrink for the first time in about a decade.
CropsAn IRRI demonstration in Vietnam's Red River Delta combined mechanised row direct seeding with fertiliser deep placement, a machine that sows and fertilises in one pass, and cut production costs by about VND 9.3 million a hectare.
CropsIRRI and Vietnamese partners ran six trainer workshops on precision nutrient management and the Rice Crop Manager app, a digital tool that gives field-specific fertiliser advice, for nearly 750 farmers, extension staff and cooperative leaders.
At Nam Cuong cooperative in Ninh Binh, mechanised direct seeding with deep fertiliser placement raised rice yields 28% to 5.65 tonnes a hectare, and machine-turned straw compost halves composting time for the potato crop.
A seeder that places rice seed 1-2 mm deep and fertiliser 3-4 cm below it has been certified as a national technical advance in Vietnam after pilots in eight Mekong Delta provinces cut seed rates by up to 65 per cent.
Tien Thuan cooperative in Can Tho now makes 12 to 15 tonnes of organic fertiliser a month and grows mushrooms on the straw it used to burn, adding USD 50 to 70 a hectare over burning or selling the loose material.
At a workshop in Can Tho, IRRI and CIP found that women manage household finances in 80 per cent of the farms represented, yet fertiliser training has traditionally invited only one household member, usually the husband.
The government will import 100,000 tonnes of non-basmati parboiled rice from Vietnam on a government-to-government basis at Tk 51.50 a kg.
FruitsChina imported $18.94 billion of fruit in 2025, led by durian from Thailand and Vietnam, according to its food and farm produce trade chamber. A Jagonews24 report in June 2026 cited analysts who saw the market as an opportunity for Bangladeshi fruit.
FruitsFrom the start of the 2026 lychee season to 14 June, Vietnam exported more than 16,000 tonnes of fresh lychee worth nearly US$11 million to China through the Kim Thanh border gate in Lao Cai province.
EnvironmentPolice in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province said on 14 February 2026 that they had found two frozen adult tigers in a house basement and arrested two men on charges of illegally trading the endangered animal.
An H5N1 outbreak at two zoos in southern Vietnam has killed at least 47 tigers since August, along with three lions and a panther.
