Pork is processed at a Vinh Anh Food factory. Food safety SSC is a Danish-Vietnamese partnership tasked with improving food safety in the Vietnamese pork value chain. (Photo: VNA) The deputy minister was speaking at the seminar "Danish experiences andsolutions in sustainable agri-food production" on August 17.
Tien underscored Denmark as one of the leading countries in agriculture andsustainable development. Denmark's experiences, he believed, would helpVietnamese firms speed up on the road to high-tech and climate-smartagriculture.
Sanne Hoj Andren, Sector Counsellor for Agri-Food at the Embassy of Denmark,revealed that strategic sector cooperation (SSC) is a partnership betweenDanish public authorities and Vietnamese ministries.
The two countries have SSC in four areas comprising education, health, foodsafety and statistics. The overall objective of the food safety SSC is toimprove feed quality and food safety in Vietnam's pork value chain.
To that end, Danish authorities have been assisting Vietnamese partners in porkorigin-tracing, controlling veterinary medicines, controlling food safety inmeat processing and capacity building in risk-based management.
Dinh Pham Hien, PSAV Secretariat at the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment's International Cooperation Department, said that the Partnershipfor Sustainable Agriculture (PAS) was a World Economic Forum initiative aimedat promoting sustainable agriculture worldwide.
Vietnam institutionalised working groups into PAS in 2015 and the Partnershipfor Sustainable Agriculture in Vietnam (PASV) was tasked with bringing togetherplayers in the agricultural sector to establish value chains of Vietnameseproduce.
The PASV has increased farming productivity by 17% and farmer incomes alike,and at the same time, cut CO2 emissions by 43%. The initiative has also helpedvalue chains meet international standards.
Jeppe Sondergaard Pedersen, International Chief Adviser of the DanishAgriculture and Food Council, said Denmark had 4,121 organic farms thatcultivated 310,000 ha of land in 2020.
Given so much land claimed by cultivation, the country has to become moresustainable by embracing circular production and resource-efficient approaches.Its produce remains competitive through higher yields and increased efficiency,more value added, and the entrance to new markets.
Troels Vensild, Head of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration'sInternational Cooperation Division, underscored Denmark as among the world'smost sustainable food producers.
Green transition is key for Danish firms to export sustainable products,resource-efficient solutions and technologies globally./.
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