Vietnam

Four decades after the war in Vietnam ended, farmers in Quang Tri province, one of the most heavily bombed places in the history of warfare, still struggle with the threat of unexploded ordinance and with the health effects of Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide and defoliant, says The Nation.

Vietnam has muscled into the top tier of rice exporters and produces vast amounts of shrimp from man-made ponds across the Mekong Delta, bringing prosperity to its farmers, says the Guardian.

U.S. and Japanese officials are to discuss agriculture market access issues this week in Tokyo. Market access has become a major obstacle to a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement involving...

In an achievement the USDA described as a major step for science and agriculture, scientists at the Agricultural Research Service have developed a vaccine candidate that protects hogs from the deadly African swine fever.