Officials of Son La and Lang Son provinces sign a memorandum of understanding on farm produce export cooperation (Photo: VNA)Lang Son (VNA) – The People’s Committee of northwesternSon La province held a conference in the northern border province of Lang Sonon June 18 to promote the export of its safe farm produce to China.
At the event, Vice Chairman of the Son La provincialPeople’s Committee Nguyen Quoc Khanh said the locality is now home to nearly60,000ha of fruits with an output of about 260,000 tonnes, mostly those withhigh economic value such as longan, mango, avocado, dragon fruit and others forindustrial processing.
In the first half of this year, Son La’s farm produce exportvia Lang Son neared 80 million USD, predominantly mango and banana.
This year, the province will continue stepping up agriculturalrestructuring, sustainably grow fruits, build high-tech farming materialszones, and develop more cooperatives in service of farm produce cultivation,supply, processing, consumption and export.
It strives to earn more than 150 million USD from farmproduce export.
Since 2018, the province has shipped roughly 10,000 tonnesof mango, longan and banana and 30,000 tonnes of tapioca abroad.
Vice Chairman of the Lang Son provincial People’s CommitteeNguyen Cong Truong said the border locality will continue asking unitsconcerned to work with China to facilitate customs clearance and accelerate administrativereform, especially in border gates.
Participants offered opinions on support for farm produceexport, export-import management mechanism, and others.
Leaders of the two provinces signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding on assisting Son La in accelerating farm produce export via LangSon’s border gates.-VNA
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