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Organic farming sector to receive assistance

President of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Andre Leu has vowed to help Vietnam’s organic farming sector achieve a sustainable, environmentally- friendly development in the time to come.
President of the International Federation of Organic AgricultureMovements (IFOAM) Andre Leu has vowed to help Vietnam’s organic farmingsector achieve a sustainable, environmentally- friendly development inthe time to come.

While meeting with Deputy PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on September 24, Leu said theIFOAM, in the future, will develop schemes to forge closer links betweenthe Vietnam Association of Organic Agriculture and their counterpartsin the region and beyond.

The move is to get the Vietnamese wider access to organic farm produce, he noted.

Deputy PM Phuc, for his part, hailed the IFOAM’s active operations inthe region and the world over the past time, which according to him,has benefited consumers, producers and the environment.

Hesaid he hopes the organisation will help develop Vietnam’s organicfarming on the back of its experience and initiatives, especially thoserelated to policies, technical assistance, training, certification,market expansion and trademark advertising.-VNA
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