Monthly Archives: March 2026

19
Mar
Chưa phân loại, News

Thành Chí Agriculture Cooperative and The Fruit Republic: Scaling sustainable citrus farming to 500 hectares by 2030

Posted on by Thuy Tran

On 17 March 2026, a delegation from the Vĩnh Long Provincial People’s Committee met in Trà Vinh with The Fruit Republic and representatives of the Government of the Netherlands. The meeting focused on long-term cooperation to scale up a sustainable seedless lime production model in Vĩnh Long Province.

The session brought together key stakeholders — including the Vĩnh Long Provincial Cooperative Alliance, the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Farmer Union, and the Thanh Chí Agriculture Cooperative — all aligned on building a farming model that is sustainable, traceable, and capable of delivering consistent export quality.

Founded in Trà Vinh in 2022 with just 10 members and 3.6 hectares, the Thành Chí Cooperative began collaborating with The Fruit Republic in 2023 and has since grown rapidly. By end of 2025, with support from the SUCCEEDS project — co-financed by RVO, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency — the cultivated area had expanded to 188.4 hectares across 186 farmers, while generating employment for over 150 local workers.

Looking ahead, the cooperative aims to collaborate with The Fruit Republic to expand to 250 hectares in 2026 and 500 hectares by 2030 throughout Vĩnh Long Province, extending beyond seedless limes to other citrus varieties such as Nam Roi pomelo. The SUCCEEDS project will continue to provide the farmers with technical assistance, access to finance, training, and the help in the adoption of international standards (GlobalG.A.P.) for export and domestic market.

The Thành Chí Cooperative is demonstrating the value of public-private partnership — bringing together government, cooperatives, the private sector, and international development support to scale sustainable, high-value agriculture in the Mekong Delta.

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11
Mar
News

Dutch Innovation Mission on Salinity visits SUCCEEDS training farm in Tay Ninh

Posted on by Thuy Tran

 

On January 19, 2026 our SUCCEEDS training farm in Tay Ninh Province hosted a high-level delegation from the Netherlands as part of the Dutch Innovation Mission on Salinity. The group of 23 companies, knowledge institutes and public organizations was led by Céline van Maaren from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, and Raïssa Marteaux, Consul General of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh City. Our team, led by Siebe van Wijk, Managing Director of The Fruit Republic, welcomed the delegation with a presentation on the Vietnamese citrus sector and the objectives of SUCCEEDS, followed by a guided farm tour. 

The visit offered a practical window into what we are building on the ground. Participants moved through the farm in smaller groups, exploring the climate-smart systems the SUCCEEDS team put in place to address some of the most pressing challenges facing citrus growers in the Mekong Delta — salinity intrusion, groundwater depletion and increasingly erratic rainfall patterns. Among the solutions on show were the on-farm rainwater harvesting reservoir that drastically reduces the need for groundwater extraction during the dry season, the drip irrigation and fertigation systems connected to it, solar-powered pumps that supply water in the dry season and drain excess water during heavy rains, and improved pruning and branch-bending techniques for better light penetration, higher yields and a greater share of premium-grade fruit. 

Consul General Raïssa Marteaux and Ms. Đinh Thị Phương Khanh, Vice Director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Environment, concluded the visit by planting citrus seedlings themselves on the training farm. 

Following the visit, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture’s international agriculture platform Agroberichten Buitenland published a detailed feature on SUCCEEDS, documenting what the delegation saw and placing our work within the wider context of Dutch-Vietnamese agricultural cooperation on climate resilience and sustainable horticulture in the Mekong Delta. 

You can read the full article HERE