Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The Ministry’s Domestic MarketDepartment reported that stockpiles of various consumer goods, ranging fromconfectionery, beverages to fresh food, increase by 10-15 percent from lastyear.
Localities, enterprises andrelevant agencies were asked to apply measures to ensure supply-demand balance,and bring goods to rural, mountainous and island areas, especially those hithard by disasters.
At the same time, the MoIT directedmarket management agencies of cities and provinces to crack down on smuggledand fake goods.
In coordination with the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Finance Ministry and the StateBank, the MoIT sent working teams to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the centralprovinces of Quang Binh and Nghe An to check preparations for the holiday,which is the most important one in a year for Vietnamese.
According to the department, 44out of 63 cities and provinces have devised plans for commodity stockpiles, 21of them are conducting the market stabilisation programme by connecting businesseswith credit organisation or offering interest rate subsidy for businesses tobuy goods.
The MoIT also partnered with theMARD and local governments to boost consumption of safe farm produce andinspect food hygiene.
The two ministries have workedtogether to review supply-demand balance and devise solutions to ensure supply./.
VNA
