Many "unique and strange" spices converge at the Festival of Vietnamese Spices

As noted, at the Festival "Essence of Vietnamese Spices" taking place in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City has more than 1,000 types of spice products through 50 display booths of nearly 100 businesses (DN) from regions across the country. These are units that have a process of discovering and learning about spices from mountainous areas and rivers to make unique Vietnamese spice products, which are not only sold domestically but also exported to other markets. difficult school.

Many "unique and strange" spices from all over the country converge at the Festival of Vietnamese Spices

Nguyen Thi Van Anh - Director of Tri Viet Phat Trading - Service and Production Co., Ltd - said that the company brought to the festival more than 30 out of 100 products. These are excellent products, which are the heart of enterprises after deep research and processing.

Doan Ngoc Minh Thuy - Director of Dong Thap Huong Essential Oil Co., Ltd - also said that, coming to this spice festival, for the first time, the company launched a collection of 100 types of spice essential oils spanning from Ha Giang to the tip of Ca Mau.

“With the strength of typical agricultural specialties of Dong Thap, enterprises now want to combine scientific and technical creativity in a new way of processing: It is technological techniques that combine interference with culinary arts to create To create a more convenient product with a modern lifestyle, instead of having a spice garden in our garden, we want to bring that spice in a more modern kitchen” - Ms. Minh Thuy shared.

City consumers. Ho Chi Minh has the opportunity to access the richness of spices throughout the region

Participating in the Festival of Vietnamese Spices, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City has the opportunity to access the richness of spices throughout the region such as: Mac Khen spice is not only found in Son La province but also in Bac Kan province and many provinces in the Northwest region, but this spice is also available. grown in both Kon Tum and Dak Lak provinces and are very delicious; pepper of all kinds such as black pepper, red pepper, grade pepper, yellow pepper, skull pepper... Or salt is made with salt from plants, lemongrass salt, stewed salt, shrimp salt, cricket salt, resistant salt of the Northwest. There are also many chao dishes, from coconut chao, taro chao...

The export potential of Vietnamese spices is very large

In order to improve the value and position of Vietnamese spices, many units and businesses have a process of discovering and learning spices from mountainous areas and rivers to make unique Vietnamese spice products. , not only sold domestically but also exported to fastidious markets.

For example, with the Saudi Arabia market, according to statistics, Vietnam's export turnover in 2020 will reach 460 million USD. Only 7 months of 2021 reached 225 million USD. In which, spices and pepper from Vietnam have a turnover of about 10 million USD/year. According to the Vietnam deal in Saudi Arabia, this is a potential market. Herbs, spices like cinnamon, anise, cloves, nutmeg, pepper and many more are added to all dishes. Other products that are also in high demand include seasonings with salt, pepper, seasoning mixes, paprika, turmeric, and ginger.

Businesses need to focus on building their own brands for products to enhance the value and position of Vietnamese spices

Mr. Nguyen Trung Dung - Chairman and General Director of Dh Foods - who has many years of establishment and distribution of Vietnamese agricultural products to Eastern Europe, is also a pioneer in exploring the regional specialty spice market. Vietnam according to international standards - said that to raise the value of Vietnamese spices we have to do deep processing, but processing is not in the industrial form but must be processed according to regional flavors. The input materials must be good to be successful to 70-80% of the seasoning.

Currently, consumers around the world are interested in health, they prefer natural spices, in Vietnam has the advantage of raw materials, if Vietnam can process natural spices from raw materials, I think has a lot of potential. Dh Foods itself can export to Japan salted shrimp from Tay Ninh, which no one thought the Japanese would eat before and exported to the Netherlands, no one thought Europeans would eat. Dh Foods exports one container a month to Japan, here exports a 40-foot container of fish sauce and concocted fish sauce. If we can make good ingredients and process them conveniently, the chances of success of Vietnamese spices are very high.

According to Ms. Vu Kim Hanh - Chairman of the Vietnam Business Association, the world spice market has an estimated size of 19 billion USD, but the actual number may be higher because the products are processed from raw materials. spices are diverse and have an annual growth of 15-20%.

Vietnam has the biodiversity to create unique quality spice products that are different from similar products in the world.

Vietnam's agriculture and spice and flavoring industries are undergoing an impressive transformation, making Vietnam an important source of supply for the world market. With geographical advantages stretching over many different climates and soils, Vietnam has the biodiversity to create very typical quality spice products, different from those of the same type above. world.

In order to add value to Vietnamese spices, in recent years, many enterprises have invested in international standard production lines and factories in order to provide products with high added value, good quality and safety. quality improvement due to investment in all stages, from production to harvesting, processing, preservation and packaging.

Although the export potential of spice products is great, Vietnamese enterprises still have many limitations in terms of scale and access to export customers. Along with the fact that Vietnamese spices have not built a strong brand, the selling price cannot match the value. Therefore, businesses need to focus on building their own brands for products to enhance the value and position of Vietnamese spices.