More than 1,000 safe agricultural models set up

Some 1,069 supply chains for clean and safe farm produce were developed across all the 63 cities and province in 2018, up 350 from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
More than 1,000 safe agricultural models set up ảnh 1Consumers pick up fruits at an agricultural fair (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Some 1,069 supply chains for clean and safe farm produce  were developed across all the 63 cities andprovince in 2018, up 350 from the previous year, according to the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development.

The ministry said that it enhanced management of material quality and foodsafety and hygiene in agro-forestry-fishery processing facilities. Strictpunishments were meted out to violation cases.

Easing biological pollution as well as anti-biotic residues in agriculturalcultivation was brought to notice to fit food safety requirements for both domesticconsumption and export. Meanwhile, the ministry applied several advancedquality management systems like GAP, GMP, HACCP and ISO 22000 into cultivation,and developed organic products and those that met VietGAP and GlobalGAPstandards.

In the year, localities across the nation engaged in the clean agriculturalproduction programmes, and branched out the “one commune, one product” model.

Furthermore, food safety chains were developed in tandem with producttraceability, with local staples labeled with code stamps to trace theirorigins.-VNA
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