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Thousands of hectares of rice and farm produce in central Quang Tri province will be recovered thanks to heavy rains on the morning of June 22.

The presence of many giant retailers in Vietnam is expected to create new distributing channels for domestic agricultural products, giving local farm produce more chances to enter foreign markets, according to the Nong nghiep Vietnam (Vietnam Agriculture) Newspaper.

The China Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City has expressed its interest in being a bridge for home firms to import farm produce in bulk from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, its President Miao Ren Lai told Can Tho authorities in a working session on June 17.

The competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural and aquatic products is weakening compared to that of foreign counterparts in the global market, leading to a dramatic fall in these commodities’ exports so far.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade believes that drastic measures need to be implemented to increase the competitiveness of farm produce and to fight against the desperately poor performance of Vietnamese agricultural products in many foreign markets.

Eighty-five domestic and Chinese businesses are expected to take part in a conference on promoting exports of farm produce, seafood and timber products which will be held in the northern province of Lao Cai on May 27 and 28.

The farm produce sector is expected to be a major beneficiary from the free trade agreement recently signed between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), as heard a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 13.