Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The third International Exhibition &Conference for Horticultural and Floricultural Production and ProcessingTechnology in Vietnam (HortEx Vietnam 2020), the largest of its kind in theSoutheast Asian country, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on February 26.
The three-day exhibition attracted over 150 enterprises from 24 countriesand territories, including those with hi-tech agriculture such as theNetherlands, Israel and Spain.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Nguyen Hong Son, Director of the VietnamAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, said that vegetables, flowers and fruits arean important commodity group in Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring project.
The country has reported average annual growth of 5 percent in terms ofproduction scale, productivity and output of vegetables, flowers and fruits, hesaid.
However, the sector is facing a lot of challenges, including limitationsin investment, lack of processing and production technologies, and unstableconsumption markets. In addition, theexport of agricultural products to China, Vietnam’s largest importer, issuffering difficulties due to negative impacts from the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak,Son added.
Dang Phuc Nguyen, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and VegetablesAssociation, said that with the participation of big buyers from many countriesand territories, HortEx 2020 will serve as a forum to enhance tradeconnectivity and seek markets for Vietnamese products.
This was also a chance for management offices, research institutes andenterprises to exchange investment-related information, update production technologiesand share experience, he added.
A series of seminars are expected to be held during the exhibition./.
The three-day exhibition attracted over 150 enterprises from 24 countriesand territories, including those with hi-tech agriculture such as theNetherlands, Israel and Spain.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Nguyen Hong Son, Director of the VietnamAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, said that vegetables, flowers and fruits arean important commodity group in Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring project.
The country has reported average annual growth of 5 percent in terms ofproduction scale, productivity and output of vegetables, flowers and fruits, hesaid.
However, the sector is facing a lot of challenges, including limitationsin investment, lack of processing and production technologies, and unstableconsumption markets. In addition, theexport of agricultural products to China, Vietnam’s largest importer, issuffering difficulties due to negative impacts from the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak,Son added.
Dang Phuc Nguyen, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and VegetablesAssociation, said that with the participation of big buyers from many countriesand territories, HortEx 2020 will serve as a forum to enhance tradeconnectivity and seek markets for Vietnamese products.
This was also a chance for management offices, research institutes andenterprises to exchange investment-related information, update production technologiesand share experience, he added.
A series of seminars are expected to be held during the exhibition./.
VNA
