After prolonged drought, a week of continuous heavy rain coupled with strong winds damaged a large area of winter-spring rice in central provinces.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Most farmers are content with bumper crops, but for 43-year-old Dang Thanh Lam, inventing agricultural machines is just as rewarding.

VietNamNet Bridge - April is the peak time for thousands of people in the mountain districts of Tay Tra and Tra Bong in the central province of Quang Ngai to busily harvest, process and sell cinnamon.

In recent years, raising trionychid turtles (Tryonyx steinachderi) has boomed in Van Hung Village, Cat Thinh Commune, Van Chan District in Yen Bai province, bringing many households a profit of nearly VND1 billion ($50,000) each year.

Deciduous baobab trees are sprouting in Hanoi. Adansonia digitata has a wide trunk and produces flowers up to 17cm wide. Nguyen Van Nga, a Hanoian farmer, is proud to say that he is caring for 108 African baobab trees.

Coming across animal-shaped decorative plants in a shop in Singapore, made by a Vietnamese farmer is a real surprise for many.

Stalls overflow with bouquets in the markets, blooms hang from pot plants in the streets and flower growers make hay while the sun shines. It's spring festival fever. Hoai Nam reports.

VietNamNet Bridge - For years, the business of growing lotus plants have strongly developed in the area of Dong Thap Muoi in Nhon Hoa Commune, Tan Thanh District, Long An Province, helping the locals escape poverty and have a stable life.