According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, only 25% of farmers can access to market information and 90% of agricultural products are sold in their original forms and 60% of them are forced to sell at low prices. Besides the two said elements and the faced difficulty of rice field in the Mekong Delta, the scale of each family with about 1ha of land where 3 crops per year are cultivated is not enough for expenses in a family with 4-5 people. Meanwhile, the number of households with land area below 0.5 /household are increasing more and more, the rural human resource is reduced and gets old, and more literate healthy young labors are leaving the rural areas. All the above combined with the problem of low-education population will obstruct the development of the Mekong Delta.

“The unseasonable flood in the Central region occurred when the farmers were steeping rice variety and sowing rice for spring winter crop caused a great damage in agricultural production. At the present farmers does not only “lack” rice varieties but also solve the “problem” of changing long-time variety into short-time variety urgently”.

International workshop on “Vietnam rice integration and export” is taken place on November 29, 2009 in the hall of Vi Thanh town committee. At present, the organization work has basically been completed and finally confirmed the guest for the workshop especially international lecturers at the workshop.

Hau Giang region overlooking gulf of Thailand that is a landlocked embayment and has the diurnal tide system with a small oscillation amplitute (approximately ¼ the tide amplitute of East sea), a low ebb and fall frequency, and quiet water surface; and the warm sea current creates the developed and diversified ecosystem, associated with the rapid growth of seafood species, and the great exploiting potential of sea economy.

Phung Hiep floating market is also called Nga Bay (seven-way) market, the biggest floating market in the Mekong delta. This is a place where seven ramifications of a river are simply named Cai Con, Bun Tau, Xeo Mon, Xeo Vong. At the floating market, trading activities of agricultural products on boats are in crowds and busy. The unique advertising way of the floating market is to pinch products at the top of a bamboo.

18 Ngo boat teams from 08 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta have participated in the festivity of competition, with 1,260 athletes (70 athletes per team).

In order to affirm the form of the South actors/actresses’ playing music instruments and singing and aim at proposing acknowledgement of art form of actors/actresses’ playing music instruments and singing to be Vietnamese cultural heritage, simultaneously to honour artist Vo Huu Vinh or also called Nam Vinh, a famous musical instrument playing and Reformed theatre singing artist of Hau Giang province, who has composed a piece of traditional tune music of overture No. 5 that has been handed down to now.