The event aimed to share experience in developing a co-operative model in
association with value chains, promote efforts to boost the export of
agricultural products to the global market, and identify opportunities and
challenges faced by the co-operative sector when participating in the value
chains.
Nguyen Van Thinh, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Co-operative Alliance, expressed
hope that the occasion will provide an ideal forum in which co-operatives can
come together and share difficulties when joining the value chain, in addition
to making useful recommendations for the co-operative area.
Adreas Stoffers, Country Director of FNF in Vietnam, expressed his delight at
the success of Vietnamese co-operatives in recent years, adding that they will
make a significant contribution to helping local farm produce meet export
requirements when joining the international value chain.
At the seminar, participants discussed how to boost production towards value
chains, opportunities for Vietnam’s farm produce export and the application of
digital platforms in developing the value chain for farm produce, and proposed
solutions to promote building and developing value chains for co-operatives.
By June this year, there had been a total of 25,282 co-operatives nationwide,
with agricultural co-operatives accounting for 64 percent of the figure.
Source: VNA