Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Ulla Tørnæs, is visiting Hanoi to further strengthen cooperation within education, health, environment and food safety. Yesterday the Danish Minister went for a walk through the alleys of Ngoc Ha food market to see where most Vietnamese do their daily shopping and understand the complexities of the local food supply chains.
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation at a meat stall in Ngoc Ha market
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Later she visited Dabaco - a large scale pig farm in Bac Ninh province to explore the potentials of Vietnamese private sector in pig production. “Denmark is a world-leader in both food safety and pork production, and I hope that we will able to assist in strengthening the sector, and that this will be yet another good example of the longstanding Danish-Vietnamese collaboration within the food and agricultural sectors”, Minister Ulla Tørnæs said while touring around the pig farm.
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Ms.Ulla Tørnæs will pay an official visit to Vietnam on May 4th and 5th , 2017, hosted by Minister of Planning and Investment Mr. Nguyen Chi Dung. The purpose of the visit is to enhance Vietnam - Denmark bilateral comprehensive partnership with focus on four sectors: Education (vocational training), Food safety (in pork value chain), Environment (industrial compliance) and Health (Noncommunicable diseases).
