This was announced at a working session between representatives of Oxfam UK and the Lao Cai Investment-Trade-Tourism Promotion Centre on June 22, where both sides agreed on cooperative programmes to improve the market as well as the market accessibility of ethnic people and poor women.　

They also stressed the need to strengthen communication in order to promote consumption and trademarks of Lao Cai agricultural products.　

After the working session, the Oxfam delegation will work with the provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Industry and Trade to build investment promotion programmes.　

As a development and humanitarian aid organisation, Oxfam UK has operated in Vietnam since 1990 and in Lao Cai province since 1991, focusing on poverty reduction and targeting ethnic minority people and women.