The eighth Meeting on ASEAN Standards for Horticulture Produce (MASHP) convened in Hanoi on April 17.

At the conference, which has been held annually since 2005, the task group of ASEAN Standards for Horticulture Produce will focus on building standards for horticultural produce, based on international and ASEAN member countries’ standards, to be presented to the ASEAN Agriculture Summit this year.

The delegates will review four ASEAN standards for mangoes, pineapples, bananas and durian, complete 10 draft standards for okra, cashew nuts, chillies, green chillies, onions, sapodilas, rose apples, aubergines, pumpkins and popcorns and build five new standards for cabbages, chinese peas, tamarinds, coffee beans and saffron.

The International Relations Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said the task group reached consensus on building 19 ASEAN standards for the field.

The conference will run through April 20.-VNA