Organic farming has become a trend as consumers are looking for better food to ensure health. (Photo: VNA)Vietnam was seeking ways to expand the export of organic farm produce as global demand was anticipated to increase rapidly with consumers paying more attention to health.According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the global organic farm produce market expanded rapidly in the past two decades, from just 18 billion USD in 2020 to 188 billion USD in 2021. The market is forecast to reach 208 billion USD this year.The US and the EU are the largest markets for organic products, all together holding a market share of 90%. Many organic agriculture producers were forced to give up because of losses, she said.Nguyen Hong Lam, Chairman of Que Lam Group, pointed out that the bottlenecks in the development of organic agriculture were the lack of trust among enterprises, farmers and consumers and the exploitation of resources to the point of exhaustion.Lam said that the focus should be placed on developing policies to encourage enterprises to establish organic value chains together with enhancing quality control measures.“Organic agriculture production is a long-term process. We must persevere, there is no other way,” he stressed.Nguyen Quoc Toan, Director of the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development, said organic production played an important role in the green growth of the agricultural sector.He pointed out a number of difficulties enterprises were encountering during the process of moving towards organic production such as building trust of consumers in organic products, limited conditions for large-scale production, and the lack of synergy to further promote organic production on a larger scale.The key would be traceability, transparency and digitalisation of organic products, Toan said.Currently, there are about 17,000 organic agriculture producers, 555 processors and 60 exporters in Vietnam./.

Source: Viet Nam News October 06, 2022 04:46 UTC