HCM City (VNA) - Safe agricultural products and foodstuff from TayNinh province are on display during a promotion week for the province's goodsat the Big C An Lac supermarket in Binh Tan district in Ho Chi Minh City.

The event, organised by the Agricultural Trade Promotion Centre under theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Tay Ninh People’s Committeeand the Central Retail, features 20 booths set up by the province-basedbusinesses, cooperatives, and production and trading establishments.

Typical products and specialties on display include sweetsop, custard wine,cantaloupe, green-skin grapefruit, dew-wetted rice paper, forest vegetables,pink guava, orange, mango, cashews, organic sugar, chili shrimp salt, beef andbeef paste, peanut candy, tea, eggs, packaged chicken, dried fruit, and juiceare on display. They meet VietGap and GlobalGap standards and haveorigin-tracing stamps.

Speaking at the opening ceremony on December 26, Dao Van Ho, Director of theAgricultural Trade Promotion Centre, said Tay Ninh has many key agriculturalproducts with high value such as vegetables, fruits and livestock products.

The event is held to introduce and promote sales of Tay Ninh’s specialty fruitsand high quality agricultural products through modern retail channels to ensurethat citizens of HCM City and nearby localities are easy to buy, he said.

The Tay Ninh Week, which runs through December 29, also includes the signing ofa memorandum of understanding between Big C and Tay Ninh province, and abusiness-matching programme between Big C’s purchasing department and about 100Tay Ninh–based businesses and cooperatives involved in the fresh food,fast-moving consumer goods, and non-food sectors.

Nguyen Van May, Deputy Director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture andRural Development, said with its nearly 270ha of agricultural land and abundantwater resources, the province has favourable conditions for planting a varietyof crops, especially fruits for processing and export.

“Producers have increasingly focused on raising the quality of theiragricultural products by applying food-safety standards and good agriculturalpractices such as VietGap and GlobalGap to meet requirements of domestic andforeign consumers. We hope to bring more products to the modern retail systemas well as export to foreign countries after this event.”

Nguyen Thi Phuong, Deputy General Director of the Central Retail, said the CentralRetail wants to have a comprehensive cooperation with Tay Ninh province toenhance activities such as the direct purchase of agricultural products fromfarmer households and cooperatives at a zero discount, and the active promotionof products under the 'One Commune, One Product' Programme in the modern retailsystems besides organisation of training sessions and promotion weeks as it isbeing done at present./.