VOV.VN - Around 550 delegates from 33 countries and territories across Asia and beyond are expected to attend the eighth Organic Asia Congress (OAC), to be held in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam, from September 16 - 19.

Vietnam's vegetable, flower and fruit industry needs strong changes from production to trade promotion to increase value and develop brand, heard a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on January 8.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Binh Dinh and the Indian General Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25 held a conference on investment promotion, trade and tourism development with Indian partners.

Measures have been taken to boost domestic trade to maintain an 8-9% growth rate per year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

With the strong development of organic farming, Vietnam has extensive opportunities to boost the export of organic agricultural products to Europe, where those products are in high demand and fetch top dollar.

Vietnamese fertiliser exports were riding high in 2022 with an aggregate volume of 1.7 million tonnes, bringing in over US$1 billion.

Vietnam has shipped its organic agricultural products to 180 countries over the world, earning an average of US$335 million per year.

VOV.VN - The northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh held a ceremony on August 11 to export the first one tonne batch of Son Thuy longans to the EU market.

TH Group has signed with HAO Mart, the leading retail supermarket system of Singapore, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation on consuming and promoting the former’s fresh milk products, safe foodstuffs and organic agricultural products in the Singaporean market.

Canberra-based Mekong Organics held a ceremony on September 15 to launch the “Promoting organic food certification & trade between Australia and Vietnam” project which is supported by the Australian Government.