Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Hà Nội Promotion Agency (HPA) and Hòa Bình Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday signed an agreement to promote the distribution of safe farm produce of Hòa Bình Province in the capital city. Accordingly, HAP would provide support to farmers and enterprises in Hòa Bình to connect with distributors in Hà Nội as well as in enhancing quality of farm produce in the northern province. Nguyễn Gia Phương, HPA’s Director, said that connecting with other provinces to supply agricultural products for Hà Nội was important as the capital city had huge demand and now had to buy around 50-60 per cent from other provinces. HPA recently launched the website nongsangantoan.gov.vn to introduce safe agricultural products and connect producers, distributors and consumers. Hòa Bình had huge demand for developing safe farm produce but … [Read more...] about Hòa Bình’s safe farm produce promoted in Hà Nội
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Intellectual property rights for Vietnam’s farm produce discussed
Ninh Thuan province’s Phan Rang garlic has been granted a collective trademark (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Lack of attention to registering brand names and geographical indications is causing difficulties to Vietnamese agricultural products, which are sometimes shut out of other markets after their names are usurped by others, heard a recent seminar. Vietnam is an agricultural nation with many excellent products with the best quality in the world, Nguyen Hong Ly, Vice Chairwoman of Vietnam Farmers Union (VFU), said at the “Intellectual property rights for Vietnamese agricultural products” seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31. However, only a few localities, organisations and enterprises have internationally registered intellectual property rights, and only some have become internationally prestigious ones, she added. According to Ly, Vietnam there are around 800 prestigious agricultural, forestry and seafood products in 720 localities but only 50 … [Read more...] about Intellectual property rights for Vietnam’s farm produce discussed
Son La province promotes safe farm produce export practice
A majority of its 350,000 ha of agricultural land is arable, helping Son La develop highly valued crops and diversify farm produce. Son La is focusing on restructuring agriculture and modeling the crop structure in line with the local soil potential, workforce, and consumption practices. The province is moving toward cultivating fruits tree on sloping land, developing cooperatives, and attracting businesses to invest in agriculture. The key is to create a value chain encompassing production, supply, processing, consumption, and promotion of safe farm produce export practices. As a result, the fruit tree cultivation area in Son La turns out 250,000 tons per year. Lo Minh Hung, Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said, “From now until 2020, Son La will develop 100,000 ha of fruit trees and pay more attention to the production process to ensure the quality of agricultural products for customers at home and demanding importers like the US and Australia.” … [Read more...] about Son La province promotes safe farm produce export practice
Tra Vinh finds it hard to boost consumption of farm produce
Tra Vinh finds it hard to boost consumption of farm produce By My Dung Participants view products on display at the seminar in HCMC on October 26 – PHOTO: MY DUNG HCMC – Many enterprises in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh are having difficulties finding markets for their products, mainly farm produce, a representative of the Tra Vinh Department of Industry and Trade said at an October 26 seminar. At the seminar, some 20 Tra Vinh-based firms introduced their products, such as red-flesh dragon fruit, king oranges, dried fish and shrimp, among other farm produce, to 32 businesses in HCMC. The seminar was held in HCMC by the HCMC Center for Supporting Enterprise Development, in a bid to introduce products to consumers. Vo Minh Cam, deputy director of the Tra Vinh Department of Industry and Trade, said that the province is still facing difficulties transporting and selling products, and expects Tra Vinh’s products to enter major markets, such as HCMC and … [Read more...] about Tra Vinh finds it hard to boost consumption of farm produce
Local farm produce processing technology remains average
Local farm produce processing technology remains averageBy Trung Chanh A local worker processes coconut at a facility in Ben Tre Province – PHOTO: TRUNG CHANH CAN THO - Despite being reputed to be one of the largest agricultural producing countries, the processing technology used by Vietnam’s farmers remains at an average level, compared with what is used throughout the world, according to Nguyen Quoc Toan, acting head of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority. Toan discussed his evaluation at a meeting on promoting technology processing agro-aqua-forestry products and mechanization to help restructure the agriculture industry in the south, held on October 19 in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang. In particular, the nation’s output of vegetables totals 25 million tons per year, but there are a mere 150 centralized industrial processing facilities with total designed capacity reaching one million tons annually, he noted. Last year, the … [Read more...] about Local farm produce processing technology remains average