The district's ambitious tourism development goals for the coming years focus on changing the structure of the rural economy to one based on trade and services.

The city has stepped up efforts to promote OCOP items through trade fairs and supermarket chains.

Hanoi is set to soon establish a high-tech agricultural center that will integrate both domestic and international advanced technologies.

The first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM 1) kicked off Thursday in Vietnam`s south central Khanh Hoa province`s Nha Trang city, with participation of delegates from 21 APEC member economies.

The Vietnam Tea Association aims to reach the target that by the end of this year, 15 factories and 6,500 households are expected to work together and produce 25,000 tonnes of tea, including 15,000 tonnes of Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified tea.

Vietnam expects pepper to remain a key foreign currency earner for the country in 2017, with targeted export turnover of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Center for Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development opened the Tet trade fair in Hanoi with the participation of 200 pavilions from nearly 200 enterprises across the country.

The Australian Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources recommended the importation of fresh dragon fruit to Australia from all commercial production areas of Vietnam fruit on the condition that the fruit meets bio-security requirements, according to the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

Vietnam and the Philippines have reached a trade agreement on extending Vietnam`s rice exports to the Philippines during 2017-2018 period, according to Vietnam`s Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Vietnam is striving to boost rice export by improving quality and branding amid continuously plunging volume since 2012.

An international agricultural festival themed Mekong Delta will take place in Vietnam`s southern Can Tho city from March 9-13 in Can Tho city.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a conference in Hanoi on January 3 with scientists discussing measures for restructuring agriculture and building new rural areas to deal with climate change in integration process.

Late-harvested lychee of Dai Thanh is a highly profitable product certified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and introduced into wide production since 2004.

To successfully deploy the restructuring of the agriculture sector, the national mainstream product develop axes must be determined from the national to local level.

The People`s Committee of Da Lat City, in Vietnam`s Central Highlands Lam Dong province, has announced a plan to boost hi-tech agriculture in 2016-2020.

Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently has issued a direction to speed up the promotion of effective and sustainable implementation of the national target programme on new rural area construction for 2016-2020 period.

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According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, the sector’s 1.2 percent growth in a challenging year showed the efforts of localities and farmers.

This information was announced by Tran Viet Hung - Deputy General Director of VietRap commercial and investment Joint stock Company, which opens up good signals for Hanoi agriculture.

Hanoi`s Livestock Development Centre has carried out the Vietnam Belgium Dairy Project since 2015 in order to promote the application of advanced techniques in dairy farming in the suburbs of the city.

General Director of Ba Huan Limited Company Pham Thi Huan said the plant processing poultry eggs of this firm in Phuc Tho district, Hanoi will be officially put into operation in the end of January 2017.

With the goal of enhancing the value of agricultural products and supplying high-quality fresh flowers for consumers in Hanoi, the munnicipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has promoted the application of technical advances and invested in new science technologies and state of the art seeds in flower production in the city.

In order to help consumers in the Capital choose safety food, the Hanoi Agricultural Trade Promotion Center has focused on building the transparent information system, which allows customers have the ability to access the electronic traceability of a variety of safety vegetables and meat.