RoK firm seeks agricultural cooperation with Cao Bang

A delegation from the Agerina technology group of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 9 met with officials of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang to seek cooperation opportunities in agriculture development with the locality.
RoK firm seeks agricultural cooperation with Cao Bang ảnh 1At the working session (Source: http://www.baocaobang.vn)

CaoBang (VNA) - Adelegation from the Agerina technology group of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 9 metwith officials of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang to seekcooperation opportunities in agriculture development with the locality.

During the meeting, Secretary of the provincialParty Committee Lai Xuan Mon introduced the locality’s potential foragricultural development, saying that Cao Bang boasts many products with goodquality such as rice, maize, potato, cassava, tangerine, chestnut, sugar-caneand beef.

He called on the firm to provide technical assistance for the locality in producingand preserving farm products, as well as in training human resources in thefield.

Cao Bang hopes to cooperate with the RoK firm in building wholesale markets andintroducing Cao Bang’s products in the RoK’s shopping centres and supermarkets,he said.

For his part, president of Agerina ImBi-ung Min highly valued Cao Bang’s agricultural potential, expressing hishope that the two sides will effectively coordinate in the coming time,contributing to introducing the locality’s farm products to RoK consumers.

He stressed the need for Cao Bang to apply advanced technologies inagricultural production to create safe, high-quality and value products,towards further promoting the sector.-VNA
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