Organic agriculture production and consumption in Việt Nam is facing many challenges from modest size, output and capital shortage to consumer doubt over quality and origin.

Flowers and ornamental trees grown in Hong Van Commune, Hanoi’s Thuong Tin District, have become not only farming products but also tourism ones. Farms, roads and houses in the suburban area are also destinations for visitors.

Hi-tech agriculture cooperatives in HCMC are finding it difficult to expand production scale, while farmers are reluctant to make investments because of complicated procedures.

In his late 20s, Ho Van Thang decided to launch his first business growing the species of chili pepper his family has treasured for centuries on the western mountain of Quang Tri Province.

VietNamNet Bridge - They don’t know each other but they have the same desire to stop farming methods that kills the land and pollute the air.

Tu Thi Tuyet Nhung, director of the Viet Nam Participatory Guarantee System, a member of the Viet Nam Organic Agriculture Association, talks to Kinh tế Việt Nam & Thế giới newspaper on organic agriculture.

VietNamNet Bridge - An ecosystem for organic agriculture is taking shape in Vietnam, helping ease  difficulties for startups in the field.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A herd of pigs runs up a high hill, in front of them, a vast farm spreads out, reaching the horizon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professor Nguyen Ngoc Kinh, former director of the Department of Science and Technology and Product Quality under the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD), 

Tu Thi Tuyet Nhung of the Viet Nam Organic Association tells Nong thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today) that organic agriculture is a philosophy and a way of living with nature.

VietNamNet Bridge - Earthworms (Perionyx excavates) can easily be used to make biological products and fertilizer for sustainable organic agriculture.