HCM City works to improve agro-forestry-aquatic products’ quality
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued a plan to implement the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s decision approving a project on ensuring food safety and improving the quality of agro-forestry-aquatic products in the 2021 - 2030 period.
HCM City (VNA) 𒀰– The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued a plan toimplement the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s decision approving a project on ensuring food safety and improving the quality of agro-forestry-aquatic products in the 2021 - 2030 period.
Accordingly,the city set a target that between 2026 and 2030, the area of cultivation and aquaculture, and livestock establishments that are certified for goodagricultural practice (GAP) will increase by 15% yearly. By 2030, allagro-forestry-aquatic product production and business establishments in the city arecertified to meet all food safety conditions or sign a commitment to complywith food safety regulations. The number ofprocessing establishments that are certified to meet Hazard Analysis andCritical Control Point (HACCP) and ISO 2200 standards will increaseby 15% and 20% a year, respectively. The rate of highly processed products (ready-to-eat) increased by 15% yearly. Theproportion of samples of agro-forestry-aquatic products monitored forviolations of food safety regulations decreased by 10% yearly. To achieve theabove targets, the city proposes solutions to improve the quality of humanresources in food safety and quality management, and support producers to applyhigher standards for quality assurance, food safety, and good agriculturalpractices such as VietGAP, Global GAP, organic or ecological agriculture. Producers are urged to join safe food chains, apply product traceability, and establishand operate a food safety and quality control system at their establishmentswith the participation of community supervision. In particular,one of the important solutions is research, transfer, application of scienceand technology, and digital transformation to ensure productivity, quality,food safety, and traceability./.
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