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For two decades, farmer To Nguyen Ho Hai in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai grew peppers, enjoying a boon in production.

Vietnam is planning to launch a 136 billion VND (5.8 million USD) trade promotion programme in 2020, focusing on expanding key markets and enabling Vietnamese firms to join global value chains.

The northern province of Bac Ninh is hosting its second made-in-Vietnam fair under the programme of encouraging the consumption of Vietnamese products.

A “Week of Vinh Oranges and Nghe An Specialties” kicked off on December 17 evening at the Big C Thang Long supermarket in Hanoi.

The fourth Vietnam Rice Festival is taking place in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long with a wide range of events designed to promote agro-economy and rice trade in domestic and foreign markets.

Home to a gentle rolling landscape, Bac Giang province is ideal for breeding chickens. The province focuses on chicken farming, with 4 to 4.6 million birds each year.

Vietnamese businesses invested 458.8 million USD in 31 foreign markets in the first 11 months of 2019, reported the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Foreign direct investment inflows into Vietnam’s textile and garment industry mounted to 19.5 billion USD over the last three decades with the Republic of Korea (RoK) being the top investor.

The State Commission on Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Foreign Ministry held a ceremony in Hanoi on November 19 to celebrate its 60th founding anniversary (November 23).

The fourth Vietnam Rice Festival will take place in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long on December 13-19 with a view to promoting agro-economy and rice trade in domestic and foreign markets.

The country’s biggest online shopping event, Online Friday, will return on December 6 with the participation of a large number of Vietnamese businesses and brands on various e-commerce platforms.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on November 7 continue questioning Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan on issues under their management.

National Assembly (NA) deputies will question ministers and heads of sectors from November 6-8 as part of their ongoing eighth session.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has said that improving product quality and brand development are key for coffee export growth as coffee exports dropped in both volume and turnover in the first nine months of this year.

With tough competition, basic production is not enough to meet the demands of export markets, so commercialization of farm produce in the Mekong delta is the only way to crack tough markets.

Asia and Europe are important markets for Vietnamese fruits and vegetable exports and imports, and flowers could be next, experts said at a seminar on “Fruit, vegetable and flower exports - New movements in Asian and European markets” in Hanoi on October 24.

Even though Vietnam’s coffee sector has enjoyed fast development in recent years in terms of cultivation area and output, foreign businesses still gain more advantages in the world market.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on October 22 to announce the export of Vietnam’s first batch of dairy products to China under a protocol signed between the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the General Administration of Customs of China on April 26, 2019.

TH Milk Joint Stock Company has become the first Vietnamese firm to receive approval from the General Administration of Customs of China to export dairy products to the Chinese market.

After setting record-high imports this year, the Philippines plans to buy less rice from foreign markets next year amid excessive supply coupled with improvement in local production.