Netherlands, VN agree to enhance agricultural partnership
VGP - Dutch Vice Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Marjolijn Sonnema and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong in Ha Noi on April 9 discussed ways to boost partnership in sustainable agriculture and food security.
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Sonnema and Cuong agreed that the development of sustainable value chain plays the role as the backbone in partnership between the two countries, with focus on customers’ demands and production efficiency, not productivity.
Dutch technologies will contribute to the expansion of sustainable value chains by reducing post-harvest losses, they held.
In addition, the two sides shared information and viewpoints on policies, situation and potential of bilateral cooperation within the framework of the Viet Nam-Netherlands Strategic Partnership Arrangement (SPA) in sustainable agriculture and food security.
The both sides concurred that the Netherlands and Viet Nam will work together in building a roadmap to apply and develop post-harvest technologies.
They agreed that the transformation of the agricultural sector of the Mekong Delta region will remain a major cooperation orientation between the two sides within the SPA framework in the future.
Noting that diseases, especially the African swine fever that has caused great socio-economic loss, the Dutch side affirmed its willingness to support VietNam in developing disease-free areas. The two sides also discussed issues related to animal and plant quarantine.
By Vien Nhu