Agriculture

Wholesale supermarket MM Mega Market Vietnam has exported more than 100 tonnes of Vietnamese agricultural products to Thailand for selling through 700 Big C malls, where the two retailers share a parent.

More than 170 food and beverage producers and distributors from more than 20 countries and territories worldwide are displaying their products at the 2018 Food Ingredients Vietnam (Fi Vietnam 2018) that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on May 16.

Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue, head of the Steering Committee for National Target Program on New Rural Establishment has signed Decision No. 490/QĐ-TTg approving the One Commune One Product (OCOP) program in the 2018-2020 phase.

Vietnam has won a contract of supplying 130,000 tons of rice to Philippines, confirmed the Vietnam Food Association.

The export value of fruit and vegetable in the first four months of 2018 has exceeded earnings from crude oil for the first time ever, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam needs to renovate supply chain to help its agriculture sector improve the competitive edge and grow effectively, experts said.

The Hanoi People’s Committee Office has just issued Official Letter No. 2794/VP-KT on asking relevant departments, sectors to implement conclusions of leaders of the Municipal People’s Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Shifting to clean production is the right way for Vietnamese fruits to compete with the rising inflow of imports, both consumers and local fruit growers said.

Vietnam is exporting tea mainly in the form of raw materials. In an effort to increase tea export value, both farmers and businesses in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, the country’s largest tea producer, are seeking to develop brand names for their products.

A workshop on sustainable lobster farming took place in Nha Trang city, the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on April 13, bringing together policymakers, researchers, business representatives and farmers from central provinces of Quang Ngai, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan.

The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade has just issued Plan No. 1511/KH-SCT on organizing a conference on supply-demand connections of agricultural products and solutions for sustainable development in 2018 in the Capital city.

Rambutan will be the third kind of fruit Vietnam exports to New Zealand, following mango in 2011 and dragon fruit in 2014.

“We need to find the products that the market currently demands prior to proceeding with production, not to rush to grow crops and then to dump them away,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc repeatedly emphasized in his dialogue with farmers.

The Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Dak Nong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum have encouraged the growing of high-demand fruits such as durian, avocado, jackfruit, longan and litchi to help farmers raise income.

Vietnam gained US$ 934 million from fruit and vegetable exports in the first quarter of 2018, up 33.4 percent from the same period last year with China, Japan and the United States remaining top importers.

The sectoral GDP growth rate of Vietnam agriculture is set at the minimum of 3%, while the export turnover target is expected to be in range of US$40 - 40.5 billion.

The application of science and technology will be a key solution to help the agricultural sector develop green and high-value products in the time to come, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

Hanoi has recently organized a conference to review the task in the first quarter of 2018 and deploy key missions in the last months of the year.

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has just inaugurated No.1 Hi-Tech Vinamilk dairy farm in the town of Thong Nhat, Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province.

The loans will help improve inclusive and sustainable agricultural value chains, directly benefiting up to 20,000 smallholder farmers in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.