A booth at the Vietnam Food Expo 2017 (Source: foodexpo.vn)HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam Food Expo 2017 opened at theSaigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on November 15 withan aim of supporting food enterprises to promote trade and expand markets bothat home and abroad.
Opening the event, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Haisaid that Vietnam’s food industry is developing rapidly with increasingcontributions to the country’s GDP and export revenues.
He noted exports of Vietnam’s agro-forestry-aquatic products hit 22.4 billionUSD in 2016 and 21.3 billion USD in the first 10 months of this year, up 17.1percent year on year and accounting for 12.3 percent of the country’s totalexport earnings.
In the coming time, the enforcement of new-generation free tradeagreements and the dynamic development of the world economy are also expectedto create new chances for Vietnam’s food industry.
Meanwhile, Bui Kim Son, Director of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agencyunder the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said that the event is a good chancefor Vietnamese firms to promote their products and seek new partners.
Son said that the two previous exhibitions have contributed to Vietnam’sfood industry, adding that last year, the expo connected Vietnamese firms withItalian partners who later decided to build three agricultural productprocessing factories in Vietnam.
The Vietnam Food Expo 2017 drew 600 booths of 450 enterprises of Vietnamand 20 countries and territories. France, which sent 30 leading firms in the foodprocessing industry to the exhibition, was chosen as the honorary country ofthe event.
On the occasion, the organizing board also held a number of conferencesand trade promotion programmes.
The expo will last until November 18.-VNA
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