Representatives from Vietnam’s tea-growing localities and famous tea firms took part in a recent seminar in New York, to seek opportunities to enter the US market.
New York (VNA) – Representatives fromVietnam’s tea-growing localities and famous tea firms took part in a recent seminarin New York, to seek opportunities to enter the US market.
During the event, experts highlighted the potential for Vietnam’s tea products toaccess the US market thanks to the country’s long-lasting history of tea growing.
According to Peter Goggi, President of the US Tea Association, the US is apotential market for Vietnam’s tea products, but it requires high standards ofquality and food safety.
Participants said Vietnam’s green tea producers should join value chains and usemore technologies in producing and processing to improve the quality of teaproducts for export to satisfy tough markets like the US.
Vietnamese tea firms were also advised to pay more attention to building their brands.
The tea industry has provided jobs to more than 354,000 Vietnamese farmers,significantly contributing to rural development and poverty reduction.
Vietnam is one of the seven leading tea producers and fifth biggest teaexporter in the world and boasts a total area of 124,000 ha for growing tea, producing500,000 tonnes of dry tea each year.
Currently, a group of Vietnamese tea enterprises are being assisted to access marketsin North America through a competitiveness improvement programme funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland.
Addressing the seminar, Ambassador NguyenPhuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, hailedVietnamese tea firms that won awards at an international tea competition inCanada last year.
The awards helped create prestige for the country’s tea industry in theinternational market, contributing to building the national trademark for Vietnam’stea, she said.-VNA
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Deputy PM Tran Hong Ha urged countries to work together to remove supply chain bottlenecks, expand market access, strengthen cooperation in smart customs procedures, mutually recognise technical standards, and eliminate unnecessary protectionist barriers to boost trade and investment.
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Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang acknowledged the target represents an important milestone for socio-economic development as well as a demonstration of the country’s aspiration for robust economic growth.
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The article by Cuba’s Inter Press Service detailed how Vietnamese private enterprise Agri VMA leased 1,000 ha of land in Los Palacios district, Cuba’s westernmost province of Pinar del Río, for rice cultivation over a three-year period. The project’s first harvest in 2025 recorded an impressive yield of 7.2 tonnes per hectare, far exceeding the local average of 1.6 tonnes.
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