Dragon fruits for exports (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Agriculture businessesshould embrace connection in order to participate in global value chains, hearda forum held in Hanoi on October 8.
Nguyen Quoc Toan, director of the agriculturalproducts processing and development department under the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development, said as of September 2019, the countrycounted 1,478 value chains of agricultural products across 63 cities andprovinces nationwide.
There are 14,810 agricultural cooperatives andover 7,000 agro-forestry-fishery processing facilities, he said, adding thatmore than 25,500 households have joined production chains with businessescertified with Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) while over619,000 households engaged in large-scale field production.
Vietnam is exporting farm produce to 185countries and territories, ranking second in the Southeast Asian region and15th in the world. The country has also joined and signed 16 new-generationfree trade agreements (FTAs), thus creating more opportunities for the exportof agricultural products, Toan said.
In the first nine months of 2019, Vietnamexported 30.2 billion USD worth of farm produce, a year-on-year rise of 2.7percent, he added.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Ha Cong Tuan said the number of agriculture businesses in Vietnamhas increased rapidly in the past three years.
About 500 enterprises are involved in agriculturalvalue chains from production, harvesting, and processing to trading, headded./.
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