The project for the development and establishment of a medicinal herb industry hub in Quang Nam Province, with Ngọc Linh ginseng as the key crop has been approved.

The first annual conference of the Thai-Vietnamese Business Association (TVBA) has been held recently in Udon Thani province of Thailand, aiming to boost trade connection between the two neighbouring countries.

According to a recently-issued decision from the Prime Minister on the Vietnamese Ginseng Development Programme to 2023 with a vision to 2045, an additional 21,000 hectares will be designated for ginseng cultivation.

Ngoc Linh ginseng has been likened to a national treasure of Vietnam. Over decades, people, businesses, and authorities in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum province have succeeded in preserving the precious genetic resource. Such an achievement, however, has been anything but straightforward for local growers of Ngoc Linh ginseng.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh worked with the Standing Board of the Party Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on August 20, during which he asked Kon Tum to work harder to optimise its great development potentials.

The Department of Science and Technology of the Central Highlands Kon Tum province has granted its very first geographical indication certificates for Ngoc Linh ginseng products of two local companies.

The Central Highlands, home to nearly 6 million people, needs thorough solutions to issues related to land use, agro-forestry-fisheries development, and ecological environment protection in order to deal with risks of instability in security and order.

Experts from the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) and the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam conducted a field trip to inspect technical and financial support for a project on the sustainable development of Ngoc Linh ginseng under forest canopy in the central province of Quang Nam province from February 26-27.

Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamensis Ha et Grushv) has been successfully cultivated in Hon Ba Nature Reserve in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa as part of a pilot project conducted from 2019 to June 2022.

Ngoc Linh ginseng deserves the "National treasure" title, and it is necessary to strongly promote the role of this treasure in improving people's livelihoods, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said when attending a workshop seeking ways to developing this kind of ginseng into a national brand in the central province of Quang Nam on August 6.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh has stressed the need to develop Vietnamese ginseng into a product with national brand.

Ngoc Linh ginseng is a precious medicinal plant considered a “national treasure” and grown in the two central provinces of Quang Nam and Kon Tum. Many people have tried to grow it in other provinces but failed. Some farmers in Son La, however, are an exception.

Although Vietnam’s nature reserves have been consolidated and expanded, biodiversity continues to decline in quality, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The central province of Quang Nam has announced a decision to establish the Song Thanh National Park based on the Song Thanh Nature Reserve.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum's has instructed district authorities and relevant agencies to promote agriculture and sell their farm produce in the domestic and global markets.

The central province of Quang Nam is expanding Ngoc Linh ginseng cultivation and developing tourism to improve the value of the precious herbal plant.

Eight years ago, Tra Linh commune suffered extreme poverty, with many locals unable to buy or build decent homes.

The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum should focus on developing commercial agriculture, applying high technologies, building a trademark for Ngoc Linh ginseng, and speeding up administrative reform, said the top legislator.

Ngoc Linh ginseng from the Central Highlands should leave a new historical hallmark in Vietnam’s pharmaceuticals industry and also become a permanent way for locals to earn their living, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on January 20.

The brand of Ngoc Linh ginseng needs protection as a national one, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a conference on developing Ngoc Linh ginseng and other medicinal herbs in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on September 6.