Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh speaks at the annual meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Working groups underthe public-private partnership (PPP) format for agriculture products shouldbuild an effective cooperation mechanism in order to develop the market, DeputyMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said at an annualmeeting of the group in Hanoi on August 16.
The establishment of groups – specifically forcoffee, tea, peppercorn and other spices, fruit and vegetables, seafood, rice,and agrochemicals – under the Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture inVietnam (PSAV) aim to attract more businesses to join the local agriculturalproduction chain, he added.
Doanh emphasised that Vietnam has alwaysencouraged businesses to lead in promoting the market, particularly in creatinghigh-added value and sustainable products.
It is hoped that the groups can connectbusinesses with pilot localities so as to create policy and institutionalbreakthroughs, and consequentially draw in private investment and agriculturalrestructuring.
According to Le Thi Hoai Thuong, head of thedepartment of external relations from Nestle Vietnam, the coffee group hasshifted to the chain connection model to try and increase the value ofVietnamese coffee with the ambition of turning the country into a globalreference point for robusta coffee.
At present, more than 80,000 farm households areinvolved in the coffee production chain with 97,000ha of plantations.
Meanwhile, the peppercorn and spices group hasfollowed the global trend of forecasting import markets early on, as well asbuilding a document guiding sustainable pepper production.
It also built data integrating software onagrochemical products for usage in pepper cultivation, in addition to trainingover 126,000 farmers, according to deputy general director of the PlantProtection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentNguyen Quy Duong.–VNA
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Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh speaks at the annual meeting (Photo: VNA) 
