That is the affirmation of many businesses and experts at the Forum "Stabilizing the quality and ensuring the standards of agricultural products of agricultural cooperatives", organized by the Vietnam Agriculture Newspaper, the School of Agriculture and Rural Development Management. 2, Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development (MARD) coordinated to organize in Ho Chi Minh City, November 22.

As one of the first enterprises to successfully export durian officially to the Chinese market, Ms. Ho Duc Minh - General Director of Van Xuan Phat Company - said that the Chinese partner when importing durian is very Frankly, if durian does not meet the requirements of phytosanitary, growing area code, your country's enterprises will refuse to buy and never return.

Durian with growing area code is officially exported

According to Ms. Minh, farmers fully know the standards of the import market. However, compliance or not is another story. When farmers have sprayed pesticides excessively, the receiving enterprises cannot wash them away and that batch of agricultural products will be turned around and cannot be exported.

Sharing difficulties in developing planting area codes, Dr. Phan Thi Thu Hien - Director of the Post-Import Plant Quarantine Center 2, Plant Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - said that the issuance of planting area codes and new packaging facilities are mainly applied to edible plants. results, not yet implemented much with products with large export volume such as rice, tea, pepper, coffee...

"Especially, there is still the situation of impersonating the growing area code , using the wrong code to export, affecting the reputation of Vietnamese goods" - Ms. Hien said.

Currently, many markets have required the exporting country's growing areas and packing facilities to be closely monitored and periodically issued codes. Growing areas and packing facilities need to ensure compliance with the requirements of each country and each market. The same agricultural product but each market will have different regulations.

In addition, growing areas and packing facilities will be registered on a voluntary basis, then periodically inspected and evaluated and must be recognized by importing countries, supervised by regulatory agencies. physical.

Business representatives, experts comment at the forum.

Enterprises need to proactively take measures to protect their codes, promptly notify export goods management agencies from their codes, as well as when detecting violations related to the use of codes. codes for coordination and handling. At the same time, it is necessary to take the initiative in the raw material area by linking with localities to renew, linking the planting areas that have been granted codes to maintain and improve the quality of agricultural products "- Ms. Hien recommended.

Dr. Le Thanh Hoa - Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development, Director of the SPS Vietnam Office - said that the Chinese market is currently focusing on traceability and has not yet implemented many inspection regulations. , monitoring residue levels. But for food products, animal feed ingredients of Vietnam have now received warnings from you about the amount of pesticides and microbial contamination.