President of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) Nguyen Ngoc Bao has asked Japan to help Vietnam develop multi-service cooperatives which have proved successful in Japan.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed that developing the collective economy must start from people’s demand, during a teleconference in Hanoi on October 14 reviewing the 15-year implementation of the resolution on renewing, developing and improving the efficiency of the collective economy and cooperatives.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue highlighted that the collective economic sector has escaped from the prolonged weakness while addressing a forum in Hanoi on October 14.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has applauded contributions of the collective economy in the non-agricultural sector to new-style rural area building and poverty reduction over the past 15 years.

A national forum on cooperative economy and cooperatives will be held in Hanoi in mid-October.

Members of the Asian Farmers’ Group for Cooperation (AFGC) shared new production models that are adapted to the effects of climate change during its 19th annual conference held in the central city of Da Nang from March 20-21.

Vietnam must strive hard to achieve the target of 15,000 effective cooperatives by 2020, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) will concentrate on devising support policies in terms of capital, land, technology and market access, while building a value chain model connecting households, cooperatives and businesses, said VCA President Vo Kim Cu.

The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) on September 13 opened its first supermarket for safe agricultural products, on a trial basis at No 14, Mac Thai Tong street, Hanoi.

The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Country Office for Vietnam have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to ultimately promote employment and poverty reduction.

VOV.VN - Only 40% of 10,000 agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam are operating efficiently.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA)'s contributions to national socio-economic development, especially agriculture and rural development.

Vietnam’s cooperatives made up 16 percent of the country’s annual GDP in the 2000-2010 period while boosting the development of the household economy and increasing agricultural, forestry, and seafood output.