Planting area codes vital to Vietnam’s agricultural exports
Published on: October 8, 2022.
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A growing area codes facilitate the control of product quality while ensuring the origin traceability of agricultural products, they said.
Hoang Trung, Director of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), said grants of codes and management of coded planting areas and packing facilities are the department’s top priorities in developing agricultural production and farm produce exports.
The country’s export value from agriculture, forestry and fisheries reached US$36.3 billion in the first eight months of 2022, up 13.1 percent over the same period last year, according to MARD.
Together with the growth in the export value of agricultural products, the agricultural sector must increase the number of new planting regions being granted codes and maintain the management quality of the coded planting areas as well.
The ministry has assigned about 90 percent of the coded planting regions to the localities managing their quality of them since 2021.
Localities are responsible for granting the code to the new planting areas and reviewing the areas with codes. Then, they will report this issue to the Plant Protection Department who will review all dossiers requiring granting codes for planting areas before sending the procedures to countries importing local agricultural products to confirm the codes.
