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Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh on February 26 asked relevant departments and agencies to optimise commitments in the European Union – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) which will take effect later this year. He made the request during a working session in Hanoi to discuss the government’s action programme and the plan to realise the EVFTA. Luong Hoang Thai, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department, said the EVFTA’s ratification has been added into agenda of the National Assembly Standing Committee’s meeting scheduled for April 13 – 17. According to him, two laws, one decree and one decision of the government are required to be revised in order to implement the deal. In the near future, four new decrees will be issued and the total number of commitments will be raised to 12. Minister Anh requested attention to completing legal procedures between now and … [Read more...] about Trade minister asks for optimising EVFTA commitments

HCM City (VNA) – The third International Exhibition & Conference for Horticultural and Floricultural Production and Processing Technology in Vietnam (HortEx Vietnam 2020), the largest of its kind in the Southeast Asian country, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on February 26. The three-day exhibition attracted over 150 enterprises from 24 countries and territories, including those with hi-tech agriculture such as the Netherlands, Israel and Spain. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Nguyen Hong Son, Director of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that vegetables, flowers and fruits are an important commodity group in Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring project. The country has reported average annual growth of 5 percent in terms of production scale, productivity and output of vegetables, flowers and fruits, he said. However, the sector is facing a lot of challenges, including limitations in investment, lack of processing and production technologies, and … [Read more...] about Horticultural, floricultural production technology exhibition opens