Nearly 50 percent of vegetables and fruits collected from wholesale markets are contaminated. The news released by the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board came as a great shock to everyone.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Can Tho City held a meeting to take opinions on a construction project on a center for linking the production, processing, and consumption of agricultural products in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.
A Korean culture road festival organised by the Embassy of Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam will be held in Hanoi from April 16 and April 17, reported the Voice of Vietnam (VOV).
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), it is expected that there will be about 1.1 million tons of agricultural products, mainly fruits, in the harvest season this month. Meanwhile, farmers and enterprises are facing many difficulties in the market and export.
According to information of the working group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Southern provinces on the situation and ability to supply various types of food and foodstuffs to Ho Chi Minh City, updated until the night of July 23, the volume of goods is now extremely abundant, not afraid of a shortage.
Ameii Vietnam exported 10 tons of fresh lychee to Thailand by sea on June 5, marking the first time the fresh fruit of Vietnam hit the shelves in Thailand.
The prices of vegetables, fruits, and seafood at some traditional markets in Ho Chi Minh City were still pinned at high levels on February 1 or the eighth day of the first month in the lunar calendar.
The business peak season of the lunar New Year has ended. The unofficial figures showed that the purchasing power of Tet market this year has risen by 10-15 percent over the same period last year while goods supply was diverse and plentiful and the price was fairly stable.
Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Industry and Trade Ms. Nguyen Huynh Trang last night led a working delegation to inspect and work with management boards and shopkeepers of Thu Duc and Hoc Mon wholesale markets.
