Canada grants US$17 million for safe pork in HCM City

The agricultural quality control arm of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has agreed to help Ho Chi Minh City devise and monitor hygiene standards for pork.

The Food and Agriculture Products Quality Development and Control Project (FAPQDC) and the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development signed an agreement on March 23 for the purpose.

Nguyen Phuoc Trung, the department’s deputy director, said the project would cost around US$17 million to be provided by CIDA.

The project will go on until December 2013.