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At a press conference on September 8 in Hanoi, Director of the Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Nhu Cuong informed that after the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) took effect, the EU has expanded its quota of rice imported from Vietnam to 80,000 tons per year. In 2019, Vietnam exported 50,000 tons of rice to the EU market under quotas, with a value of 28.5 million euros. Compared to other countries in the ASEAN, Vietnam's rice exports to Europe were only one-sixth of those of Thailand, one-tenth of those of Myanmar, and a quarter of those of Cambodia. However, since this year, Vietnam will have an additional 30,000 tons of fragrant rice grown in the Mekong Delta, which receives the wild card to enjoy preferential tariff treatment to this market. According to the Director of the Department of Crop Production, the cultivation area of fragrant rice in the Mekong Delta annually reaches about 25 percent of the total … [Read more...] about Ministry urges enterprises to complete procedures to export fragrant rice to EU

The MARD said that over the past time, the management of the growing-area codes in provinces was merely at the stage of initial statistics, while the inspection and supervision on code-granted establishments have not been taken seriously in many provinces. The ministry's assessment showed that the regular information exchange mechanism between provinces and this unit has not been effective either. Moreover, recently, some enterprises were using incorrect growing-area codes and codes of packing establishments. They even "borrowed" and impersonated codes of other establishments to complete export documents. Therefore, the ministry requires provinces to inspect, evaluate, and review the entire status of code-granted growing areas and packing facilities, then send detailed reports to the Department of Plant Protection under the MARD before September 20. It requests provinces to actively monitor code-granted growing areas and packing establishments to prevent improper use of codes. As … [Read more...] about Ministry orders supervision, management on fruit growing-area codes

MARD deputy minister Phùng Đức Tiến said as the period from May to September last year was the peak period of African swine fever, local pig farms restricted breeding, affecting the supply in 2020. At the same time, some big breeding enterprises have restructured and limited breeding. … [Read more...] about Pig re-herding and lunar July push hog prices down

Meanwhile, the export of forest products reached US$7.3 billion during the January-August period, up 9.3 percent over the same period last year. According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the main factor driving the export of Vietnamese wooden products over the past two months was virtually uninterrupted production, unlike the situation in other major producers such as China, Germany and Italy. … [Read more...] about Agro-forestry-fishery exports record trade surplus

A report released by the MoIT shows that during the first eight months of the year, the local garment and textile industry contributed approximately US$22 billion to the country's overall export turnover, despite recording declines of more than 11% compared to the same period last year. Indeed, resurgence of novel coronavirus outbreaks globally has also caused more difficulties for Vietnamese textile and garment production, along with exports.  … [Read more...] about VIETNAM’S BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES SEPTEMBER 10