Hanoi (VNA) - About 350 booths will be featured at Vietnam’s Premier International Feed, Livestock and MeatIndustry Expo (Vietstock 2018), which will take place on October 17-19 in Ho Chi MinhCity.
The event was introduced at a press conference held by the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development and UBMAsia Limited – the largest trade show organiser in Asia in Hanoi onSeptember 5.
Nguyen Xuan Duong, acting general director of the department, said Vietstock2018 will be the biggest ever of this kind, aiming to discuss measures to improve livestock productivity and seekingpotential markets for livestock and aquatic products.
Initiated in 2004, the biennial event has helped enhance links among experts,thus seeking solutions to fostering the country’s livestock industry.
This year’s event will include workshops where foreign experts andrepresentatives from regional livestock associations will share experience andadvanced technologies applied in the sector, and discuss measures to push theindustry’s development in the time to come.
According to Rose Chitanuwat, business director of UBM Asia, Vietstock2018 is expected to attract 12,000 domestic and foreign participants who wantto seek new products and technologies, and potential partners, thus expanding businessmarkets.
Asurvey shows that 77.6 percent of visitors to Vietstock 2016 played a decisiverole or made direct impacts on the purchase process and potential partners ofexhibitors.
Rose Chitanuwat said Vietnam’s livestock industry is facing difficulties becauseof mall production scale, high feed cost and reduced prices.
Thesector is making every effort to fine-tune production and distribution, establisheffective supply systems and increase added values for livestock products,along with looking for new export markets, she added. -VNA
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