Vietnam’s Gia Lai province is expanding high-tech farming, certified production and processing to raise the value of key agricultural products and meet stricter domestic and export market requirements.
Gia Lai is planning a major expansion and upgrade of irrigation infrastructure in its western region, where only 8.94% of agricultural land currently has access to proactive irrigation and the annual water shortfall exceeds 1.234 billion cubic metres.
Gia Lai province is restructuring its agricultural sector by replacing fragmented local branding with regional-scale agricultural brands linked to specialized production areas and integrated value chains, aiming to improve competitiveness, attract investment and expand export opportunities.
Gia Lai province is strengthening its passion fruit value chain through closer cooperation between businesses, cooperatives, and farmers as it seeks to improve product quality, expand exports, and increase incomes for growers.
Gia Lai province has expanded low-emission rice cultivation to nearly 1,700 hectares, exceeding its 2026 target and strengthening its preparations to participate in domestic and international carbon credit markets through reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Gia Lai has become a major destination for large-scale livestock investment projects in recent years, particularly in the western part of the province.
In April 2026, the Gia Lai Provincial People’s Committee issued Document No. 3861/UBND-KGVX, authorising the use of the geographical name “Gia Lai” for registration of the certification trademark “Gia Lai durian”.
More than four decades after waves of post-reunification migration, Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has transformed from sparsely cultivated land into a major agricultural production hub, driven by settlers who built new lives on basalt soil.
Đinh Văn Châu, a Bahnar student at Gia Lai College, has emerged as a standout example of resilience, overcoming family tragedy, chronic illness and financial hardship to achieve academic and extracurricular success.
Communities in western Gia Lai are accelerating efforts to restore farming and rebuild homes after late-2025 storms and floods devastated thousands of hectares of crops, damaged livestock production, and repeatedly inundated residential areas.
The once-barren commune of Pờ Tó is emerging as a new cocoa hub after successful trials by Trọng Đức Cocoa Co., Ltd., drawing interest from Japan’s Bourbon Corporation and promising higher incomes for local ethnic minority farmers.
As Tet approaches, Sơn Lang commune in Vietnam’s Gia Lai province enters its busiest weeks of the year, with vivid orange and yellow orchards drawing traders and visitors to one of the region’s most productive citrus hubs.
Gia Lai province is accelerating a broad transition toward green and organic farming as climate pressures, rising input costs, and stricter market requirements push its agricultural sector to shift from output-driven production to sustainability-focused models.
Unfavorable weather, rising production costs and weakening consumer demand have cast an unusually subdued mood over the apricot-growing hubs of An Nhơn Đông and An Nhơn Bắc, where growers say the 2026 Bính Ngọ Lunar New Year market is the bleakest in years.
The annual spring harvest of teng leng flowers and young leaves continues to sustain the culinary heritage of the Jrai people in Gia Lai province, where villagers gather the wild plant each year from January to mid-March.
Gia Lai province is accelerating safe vegetable production to secure supplies for the Lunar New Year (Tet), as farmers recover from late-2025 floods and respond to rising consumer demand for high-quality, clean produce.
Gia Lai Province is rapidly overhauling its crop structure as climate change, rising production costs, and unstable agricultural markets push local authorities and farmers toward more profitable and sustainable models.
An Binh Ward is emerging as one of the largest vegetable-producing areas in western Gia Lai, as hundreds of households adopt safe cultivation practices that have raised incomes and diversified crops.
Mulberry cultivation and silkworm farming are emerging as a reliable livelihood for thousands of households in western Gia Lai province, as production–consumption linkages help farmers reduce risks and steadily improve living standards.
The Gia Lai Provincial Farmers’ Association on December 31 convened its first Congress of delegates for the 2025–2030 term, marking a new phase in mobilising farmers and advancing sustainable agricultural development in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
Job’s tears have entered their peak harvest season on the upland fields of Krong commune in Gia Lai province, where Bahnar families gather the deep red seed clusters for traditional use, particularly brewing rượu ghè for village festivals and Tet.
After more than a decade of rapid expansion and repeated boom-and-bust cycles, Gia Lai’s passion fruit industry, the largest cultivation hub in Vietnam, is entering a critical phase, shifting its focus from acreage growth to sustainability, quality and value-chain integration.
Evolving from its traditional vegetable cultivation, Thuận Nghĩa vegetable village (Tây Sơn commune, Gia Lai province) is gradually transforming into a community-based tourism destination, opening up new livelihoods for local residents.
The Gia Lai Provincial People’s Council has approved two key resolutions aimed at directly supporting the livelihoods of farmers and fishermen, as part of 65 resolutions passed at its fifth session held from December 8–9 during the 2021–2026 term.
