Vietnam: Reviving the largest sweet potato farm in the country

Published 2023년 4월 12일

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Vinh Long province in Vietnam is encouraging sweet potato farmers to obtain planting area codes to boost exports to China. The General Administration of Customs of China has approved 27 applications for these codes, covering several communes in Binh Tan district. This initiative is part of efforts to improve sweet potato production and quality, including the adoption of VietGAP standards. Despite challenges like low prices and COVID-19 impacts, cooperation between farms and businesses is on the rise, with support for initial production costs and fair floor prices. Companies like Hung Phu Agricultural Products Import-Export Co., Ltd. and Song Toan Phat Trading Service Co., Ltd. are actively involved, ready to export the first official batch of sweet potatoes to China.

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Everyone who grows potatoes must participate in the planting area code To reorganize the production of sweet potatoes, authorities at all levels in Vinh Long province have made great efforts in propagating, mobilizing and guiding the development of planting area codes for peasants. Recently, 27 applications for area codes for sweet potatoes of the province have been approved by the General Administration of Customs of China. The planting areas granted this code are concentrated in Thanh Trung, Tan Thanh, Tan Hung, Tan Binh, Tan Luoc, Thanh Loi and Nguyen Van Thanh communes (Binh Tan district). Through this, it has further strengthened people's hopes for the future of sweet potato. Mr. Pham Van Hi as well as many farmers in Thanh Trung commune are very excited about the news that Vietnamese sweet potatoes are officially exported to the Chinese market. After harvesting the winter-spring rice crop, he started to sow sweet potatoes again. For more than a month now, he has been working ...

Source: Agriculture