Agriculture

With the aim to meet demand for exporting agricultural products in the north, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said on July 5 the ministry would work with the Ministry of Science and Technology to fund upgrades of the Hanoi Irradiation Centre under the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute.

The Vietnamese Lychee Day was held in the Australian city of Melbourne on June 29 with the goal to popularise the fruit in the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has set up a special committee to review fees and charges, revealed Minister Cao Duc Phat at a press conference in Hanoi on July 1.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the World Bank co-organised a conference discussing measures to boost investment in agriculture in Hanoi on June 28.

According to the Reuters, the Philippines’s National Food Authority (NFA) invited Thailand and Vietnam to take part in a bid to supply 250,000 tonnes of 25 percent broken white rice, and will be shipped to the Philippines in July and August this year.

Farmers in northern Hung Yen province are very excited as their first batch of longan will be shipped to the United States shortly. It will open up new potential market for consumption of Hung Yen longan in the coming time.

A forum featuring the role of businesses in new rural areas took place in Hanoi on May 22, where an expert urged farmers to adopt a more commercial mindset.

Vietnamese firms need to enhance their role in the food industry value chain to supply more quality products and increase export of farm produce, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam’s rice export turnover to markets in Africa, West Asia and South Asia recorded considerable growth in the first quarter of this year to hit 71.3 million USD, 531 percent higher than that of the same period last year.

The Prime Minister has approved a master plan for hi-tech agriculture zones through 2020 and the orientation to 2030.

Vietnam domestic agribusinesses have new opportunities to boost exports and break into key Australian markets with the implementation of landmark trade agreements in 2015.

Vietnam expects to reach a total export value of 2 billion USD for fruits and vegetables this year, an official of the Vietnam Vegetable and Fruit Association (Vinafruit) has said.

Criteria related to environmental conservation has become the most difficult to achieve among the 19 criteria of the national target programme on building new-style rural areas, with only 26 percent of the communes under the programme currently meeting this requirement.

Vietnam has allowed the import of French boneless beef from cattle less than 30 months old, provided that the product satisfies the country’s quality requirements.

KTĐT - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has recommended that the State's budget concentrate on developing infrastructure and logistic facilities for five regional fishery centres along the Vietnamese coastline.

A consensus to work together in the development of domestic agricultural products to be sold on the global market was the highlight of meetings between Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat and his counterparts from Indonesia and the Philippines in Jakarta on April 19.

Vietnam has signed seven free trade agreements with multi-lateral, regional and bilateral partners, with hundreds of tariffs on farm produce to be removed by 2018.

Japanese Showa Denko Group will build a pilot plant producing clean vegetables using LED light technology at the total cost of 1 million USD in the northern province of Ha Nam, said the Group’s General Director Daiken Murakami.

Through public-private partnerships, foreign companies in the food sector have been participating with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in an effort to support farmers’ cultivation of input materials, and in so doing, optimize their supply chain.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted a plan to the Government that seeks to develop a Vietnamese rice brand name by 2020.