Overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA) Can Tho(VNA) – Chairman of the Can Tho People’s Committee Vo Thanh Thong told JapaneseAmbassador to Vietnam Umeda Kunio on August 25 that he wants Can Tho and Japan tofoster cooperation in farm produce processing and health care.
Thong said that CanTho city is a major agriculture hub of the Mekong Delta region with highagricultural productivity and quality.
However, the prices ofmany local farm produces have yet to meet expectation, he said, adding that thecity is also facing many difficulties in exporting products to certain marketsdue to poor processing technologies.
He suggested thatAmbassador Umeda Kunio, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), help the city to build a centre for preserving and processing fruitusing modern technology meeting international standards.
The Can Tho leaderalso asked the diplomat to assist Can Tho in accessing Japanese ODA to improveits cardiovascular hospital with 200 beds at a cost of about 32 million USD.
For his part, AmbassadorUmeda Kunio said that he finds Japanese-funded projects in Can Tho areoperating effectively with right purposes and expectation.
He noted that theproposal on cooperation in agricultural product processing and health care isin line with the two countries’ direction for cooperation, and promised to encourageJapanese firms to invest in Can Tho, as well as introduce Japanese localities tothe city for establishing twinning relations.
According to Can ThoDepartment of External Relations, as of July 2017, Can Tho had six Japanese-fundedprojects worth 12.05 million USD, mostly in automobile, paper, computersoftware and food.-VNA
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