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To be successful, agricultural start-ups must have long-term business strategies, strengthen linkages in the start-up eco-system and understand the market they target, experts have said.

Agricultural start-ups should capitalise on the huge demand for safe agricultural products by developing long-term, sustainable production strategies, experts said at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on June 6.

The agricultural start-up forum, themed “Incubating Vietnamese businesses”, took place in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) has recently launched a contest to encourage young people to launch agricultural start-ups.

Policy and technological solutions in support of enterprises which are either agricultural start-ups or shifting their operation to agri-business were discussed at an APEC forum in Can Tho on August 23.