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Deputy PM: Vietnam, RoK should step up agricultural cooperation

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has hailed the effective cooperation between the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of the RoK in past years.
Deputy PM: Vietnam, RoK should step up agricultural cooperation ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung (R) and Chairman of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of the Republic of Korea Kim Byung-won (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has hailed the effectivecooperation between the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) and the National AgriculturalCooperative Federation of the Republic of Korea (NACF) over the past year, suchas exchanging information and experience in developing cooperatives and humanresources.

Duringhis reception for NACF Chairman Kim Byung-won in Hanoi on March 22, Dung proposedthe NACF continue assisting the VCA in training personnel, improving capacityfor Vietnam’s agricultural cooperatives, establishing new-style cooperatives,providing supermarket management skills, and boosting cooperation inagricultural finance.

TheDeputy PM suggested the NACF prompt Korean competent agencies to help addressdifficulties related to quarantine of Vietnamese agricultural products and openits market for Vietnamese pork and chicken in 2018, and then dragon fruits,rambutan, longan and lychees.

TheGovernment of Vietnam always creates favourable conditions for Korean agriculturalproducts to enter the Vietnamese market, he affirmed.

Dungexpressed his delight at the rapid and effective development of economic-tradeand political relations between the two countries.

TheRoK is now one of the leading economic partners of Vietnam, ranking first interms of investment, second in terms of trade and ODA, and third in terms oftourism, he said.

Bythe end of 2017, the RoK had invested in more than 6,400 projects with acombined investment capital of 57.66 billion USD, Dung said, adding that in2017 the RoK led foreign investors in Vietnam with 8.31 billion USD in newlylicensed and added investment.

NACFChairman Kim Byung-won agreed with Deputy PM Dung’s ideas and proposals for moreeffective cooperation between the NACF and the VCA, saying that staff training,capacity building for the Vietnam’s agricultural cooperatives, and buildingnew-style cooperatives are among their key cooperation contents.
TheRoK is willing to provide Vietnam with resources and experience in chain-based production,thus raising the value of its agricultural products, Kim said.

TheNACF Chairman called on the two countries to take effective measures toincrease the sale of agricultural products in each other’s market.-VNA     
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