Vietnam, RoK boost agriculture cooperation
VOV.VN -The Vietnamese government always creates the best possible conditions for the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s agricultural products to penetrate the Vietnamese market in line with regulations.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung was speaking at a reception in Hanoi on March 22 for Chairman of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of the Republic of Korea (NACF) Kim Byung-won.
Dung asked for the RoK’s support for Vietnam in human resource training, and building new types of agricultural cooperatives and suggested Korean representatives to share experience in finance management and insurance in the sector.
He also proposed the NACF ask Korean competent agencies to help alleviate difficulties related to quarantine of Vietnamese agricultural products and open its market for Vietnamese pork and chicken in 2018, and then dragon fruits, rambutan, longan and lychees.
Dung told his guest that he is elated to see the rapid and effective development of economic-trade and political ties between the two nations.
NACF Chairman Kim Byung-won agreed with Deputy PM Dung’s proposals for more effective cooperation between the NACF and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), saying that staff training, capacity building for the Vietnam’s agricultural cooperatives, and building new-style cooperatives are among their key areas of cooperation.
The RoK is ready to provide Vietnam with resources and experience in chain-based production, thereby raising the value of its agricultural products, he said, while underlining the need to take drastic measures to increase the sale of agricultural products in each other’s market.
The RoK is currently one of the leading economic partners of Vietnam, ranking first in investment, second in trade and ODA, and third in tourism. By the end of 2017, the RoK had poured US$57.66 billion in more than 6,400 projects in Vietnam.