Harvesting coffee in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
Sydney (VNA) – Canberra-based Mekong Organics held a ceremony on
September 15 to launch the “Promoting organic food certification & trade
between Australia and Vietnam” project which is supported by the Australian
Government.
The event was held online with the participation of 150
delegates from the two countries, including representatives of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and the Environment of
Australia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, and Departments
of Agriculture and Rural Development of many Vietnamese localities, and
representatives of associations, businesses, cooperatives and many experts in
organic agricultural products.
Speaking at the event, Project Manager Nguyen Van Kien,
Director of Mekong Organics, said that the project will be carried out from
September 2021 to May 2022 with an aim to expanding the production and trade of
organic products in the Southeast Asian nation.
The project will conduct training for the Vietnam organic
agriculture industry, with 200 participants that are farmers, co-operatives,
businesses, government staffs, associations and women about organic food
production, certification and trade using experience from the Australian and
Vietnamese organic agriculture industry, with the aim of scaling up bilateral
trade in this sector.
A series of webinars or forums will be held after each
training chapter to promote the organic food trade between Australia and
Vietnam.
The project will also develop an online trade forum to
promote trade of organic food, certification and technology between the two
countries./.
VNA