“There’s no worry about the lack of meat during and after the Lunar New Year festival (Tet),” said Nguyen Thanh Son, Deputy Head of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). He confirmed that some 270,000 tonnes of meat have been supplied to the domestic market in January, up [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has signed a cooperative agreement with Unilever Vietnam for a project to develop Vietnam’s tea industry. Under the agreement, by 2015, Unilever will purchase 25,000-30,000 tonnes of Vietnamese black tea, meeting the quality standards of the Rainforest Alliance. The project aims to help Vietnam increase its black [...]
The Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has announced it will begin exporting dairy products to Thailand in the first quarter of this year in a $10 million deal signed late last year. In 2011, Vinamilk exported $140 million worth of products to 15 countries all over the world, making an increase of 72 [...]
Japanese brewers Kirin Holdings and Asahi Group Holdings are licking their lips at the thought of investing in Vietnam’s state-owned brewer Sabeco. Representatives from the two beer makers last week separately met leaders of Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to look at investment in their local counterpart. “Kirin said it wanted to become a [...]
Vietnam was among top 25 beer-consuming nations in the world last year, according to the latest report by the research arm of major Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings Co. Of the 25 nations listed, consumption rose most significantly in Nigeria, up 17.2 percent, followed by India, of 17 percent, Brazil, 16 percent, and Vietnam, 15 percent. [...]
The US-based Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty stores, has just hosted a opening event for 3 flagship stores in Ho Chi Minh City’s downtown area. The 3 stores are located at 424A Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in District 3, and 1 Truong Dinh Sreet and B55 Nguyen Trai Street in [...]
In 2011 Vietnam’s vegetable oils industry increased its export volume by 50 percent and its export value was up by 51 percent compared to the previous year, announced the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The country exports vegetable oils mainly to Cambodia, China and Australia. To gain this result, businesses dealt with numerous challenges such [...]
Food companies say that the economic crisis more or less affects the export of specialty food to serve overseas Vietnamese people’ Tet celebration. The small merchants who specialize in trading specialty food, such as picked vegetables or jams at some wholesale markets in HCM City all said that the exports decrease by 30 percent in [...]
China sourced dairy products have once again raised worries among consumers after the Chinese Quality Inspection Directorate discovered the content of aflatoxin M1, a cancer causing substance, in the products of Mengniu was higher by 140 percent than the allowed level. Dairy products have been more popular in Vietnam The noteworthy thing is that in [...]
The luxurious Kobe beef that has been offered in Vietnam in the past few years has in fact been illegally imported without passing any quarantine check, officials said. Vu Ngoc Anh, deputy head of the General Customs Department, told Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper that local customers had been duped into thinking in that they had [...]
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