Thank you Graham!

Reason #19,739 that I love this series of tubes?  I posted this photo on Flickr a few days ago and was really curious about what the right-hand side of the billboard said.  A lot of signs in this style can be found around Vietnam, and they usually have words of encouragement on how to be a good citizen or something else encouraging and pro-Communist party.

So I knew that it was a Vietnamese government-related sign, but since it had to do with food I was very intrigued.  I sent it to bad-ass blogger, Graham at Noodlepie, he asked his readers and I had my answer really quickly.

The letters VACR on the billboard refer to Vietnam's program to rebuild agriculture.  The acronym stands for fruits and vegetables, aquaculture, livestock and rice.

If you enlarge the photo, you'll see that the section on the right shows durian, jackfruit, roosters, corn, fish and some other fruits.  One commenter's translation of the sign is as follows:

phat trien = improve
giong lua = rice plant
can an trai = tree bearing fruit
va = and
vat nuoi = raised animal (?)
chat luong cao = good quality