Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam had a working session in Hanoi on September 28 with the Dutch company Jan Zandbergen, and some partners exporting livestock products to the EU.
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Vu Van Tam had a working session in Hanoi on September 28 with the Dutchcompany Jan Zandbergen, and some partners exporting livestock products to theEU.
The Dutch company Jan Zandbergen’s representative said that the EU’s 500million people market has high demand for chicken meat and it currently importsthe meat mainly from Brazil, Thailand and Ukraine.
In 2017, the EU has a demand for 950,000 tonnes of chicken meat, 85percent of which is chicken breast. Jan Zandbergen plans to import 85,000tonnes of poultry, pork and beef worth 400 million EUR.
Jan Zandbergen’s representative advised Vietnam to export processedchicken meat to the EU, as when the Vietnam-EU free trade agreement takeseffect, tax will be cut to zero percent and no EU quota will be put onVietnamese chicken meat.
However, he stressed that Vietnamese firms should meet all requirementsin quarantine, especially food safety regulations, origin and disease trackingrules.
Pham Van Dong, head of the Department of Animal Health said that Vietnamhas issued the Animal Health Law and 13 legal documents in the field and thecountry has full capacity to satisfy all requirements of choosy markets,including Japan.
Dong proposed that Jan Zandbergen consider investing in building a processingfacility of the EU standards in Vietnam.
Deputy Minister Tam said that Vietnam has shipped the first batch of chickenbreast to Japan after meeting all strict requirements in food safety.
He hoped that Vietnam would export chicken meat to the EU and other toughmarkets soon. -VNA
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