Kien Giang (VNS/VNA) — The Mekong province of Kien Giang is taking steps topromote exports to compensate for damage caused by the effects ofCOVID-19 and saline intrusion.
The province’s AgricultureDepartment has been asked to prepare for the summer – autumn and autumn –winter crops and for aquaculture activities, especially shrimp breeding inbrackish water, to supply shrimp to the local market and to shrimpprocessing exporters.
Banks in Kien Giang have launchedpreferential credit packages for enterprisesthat process products for export. Agencies in the province have alsolaunched promotion programmes to seek markets globally and have providedsupport to enterprises for imports and exports ofmaterials and machinery and equipment.
The province isincreasingly using e-commerce to promote business informationand online business services, and to advertise products.
Exporters aim to find new marketsto replace traditional markets, and will seek more opportunitiesto export rice and seafood, the two major products of KienGiang.
According to the Kien GiangDepartment of Trade and Industry, the province attained total import – exportvalue of 63.8 USD million in May, an increase of 37.6 per cent comparedwith April.
This included exports of 35.6 millionUSD (up by 77.4 percent) and 21.7 million USD in seafood exports.
For the first five months, KiênGiang reported export turnover of 271.6 million USD, up by 4.6 percent andaccounting for 34.8 percent of 2020 plan./.
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