Illustrative image (Source: VNA)During the event, experts highlighted the potential for Vietnam’s tea products toaccess the US market thanks to the country’s long-lasting history of tea growing.
According to Peter Goggi, President of the US Tea Association, the US is apotential market for Vietnam’s tea products, but it requires high standards ofquality and food safety.
Participants said Vietnam’s green tea producers should join value chains and usemore technologies in producing and processing to improve the quality of teaproducts for export to satisfy tough markets like the US.
Vietnamese tea firms were also advised to pay more attention to building their brands.
The tea industry has provided jobs to more than 354,000 Vietnamese farmers,significantly contributing to rural development and poverty reduction.
Vietnam is one of the seven leading tea producers and fifth biggest teaexporter in the world and boasts a total area of 124,000 ha for growing tea, producing500,000 tonnes of dry tea each year.
Currently, a group of Vietnamese tea enterprises are being assisted to access marketsin North America through a competitiveness improvement programme funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland.
Addressing the seminar, Ambassador NguyenPhuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, hailedVietnamese tea firms that won awards at an international tea competition inCanada last year.
The awards helped create prestige for the country’s tea industry in theinternational market, contributing to building the national trademark for Vietnam’stea, she said.-VNA
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