Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCMC

Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai speaks at the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Foodexpo 2023.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai speaks at the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Foodexpo 2023.

The four-day event features over 500 booths of nearly 400 domestic and international enterprises, including businesses from 30 Vietnamese cities and provinces and over 20 countries and territories such as the US, Russia, Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, and Japan.

On display is a wide range of agricultural products, aquatic products, processed foodstuff and beverages, as well as food processing, preservation, and packaging technologies and equipment, among others.

Organic food production and processing are an inevitable trend in the Vietnamese food industry, therefore the event has gathered many local and foreign organic brands with high-quality products, meeting the needs and trends of healthy living in the country.

Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCMC. (Photo: SGGP)

Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCMC. (Photo: SGGP)

The event is also an opportunity to connect Vietnamese enterprises with partners, boost trade and investment promotion, and develop the food industry.

A highlight of the event is the presence of booths from the Biotrade project with the theme " Biodiversity: Where flavors harmonize". More than 20 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia have introduced more than 200 items such as spices, seeds (peanuts, beans, sesame), rice, coconut, palmyra palm fruit, tea, coffee which are cultivated and produced according to international standards.

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