Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCM City

Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22.
Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCM City ảnh 1Vietnam Foodexpo 2023 opens in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam Foodexpo2023 opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in Ho ChiMinh City on November 22.

The four-day event features more than 500 booths of nearly400 domestic and international enterprises, including businesses from 30Vietnamese cities and provinces and more than 20 countries and territories such as theUS, Russia, Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, Japan.

On display are a wide range of agricultural products, aquatic products, processed foodstuff and beverages, as well as food processing, preservation and packaging technologies andequipment, among others.

Organic food production and processing are aninevitable trend of the Vietnamese food industry, therefore the event has gathered many local and foreign organic brands with high quality products, meeting theneeds and trends of healthy living in the country.

The event is also an opportunity to connect Vietnameseenterprises with partners, boost trade and investment promotion, anddevelop the food industry.

A highlight of the eventis the presence of booths from the Biotrade project with the theme " Biodiversity: Where flavors harmonise". More than 20 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia have introduced more than 200 items such as spices, seeds (peanuts, beans, sesame), rice, coconut,palmyra, tea, coffee which are cultivated and produced according tointernational standards./.

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