On February 17, the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore had a working session with the Singapore Food Authority (SFA) on promoting the opening of the market for Vietnamese pork, chicken and poultry egg products in Singapore.
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| From left to right: Counsellor Cao Xuan Thang, Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Tran Phuoc Anh, Mr. Damian Chan, Director General of SFA; Dr. Abdul Jalil, Assistant Director General of SFA and Mr. Kevin Khng, Director of International Cooperation, SFA. |
Attending the working session on the Vietnamese side were Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Tran Phuoc Anh; Mr. Cao Xuan Thang, Commercial Counselor, Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore. On the Singapore side were Mr. Damian Chan, General Director of SFA; Mr. Kevin Khng, Senior Director of International Cooperation, SFA.
Singapore is currently only self-sufficient in about 10% of its total domestic food consumption needs, the remaining 90% is imported from abroad. Ensuring food security is one of Singapore's top important strategies.
Every year, Singapore imports about S$1.2 billion worth of seafood products, of which Vietnam supplies about 9.7%; imports about S$460 million worth of rice products, of which Vietnam supplies about 28.25%; and about more than S$1.28 billion worth of meat of all kinds. However, fresh pork, chicken, and poultry eggs from Vietnam are still not allowed to be officially exported to the Singapore market.
Ambassador Tran Phuoc Anh said that economic relations between Vietnam and Singapore are growing, with Singapore being the second largest investor in Vietnam. Vietnam and Singapore are both important and close members of ASEAN, and both countries export and import each other's products.
Vietnam is a country that produces many agricultural products of good quality and reasonable prices, especially fruits of all kinds, chicken meat and eggs. Vietnam is ready to cooperate to support Singapore in ensuring food security.
Vietnam also hopes that the Singapore Food Authority and Singaporean authorities will soon complete the assessment of Vietnamese businesses and farms so that Vietnam can officially export chicken meat and poultry eggs to the Singapore market.
Mr. Damian Chan, General Director of SFA, thanked the Trade Office of the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore for supporting SFA's delegations to Vietnam for surveys in 2024. SFA highly appreciated the scale of livestock farming, technology level and machinery and equipment in poultry slaughter and processing lines, poultry egg production at enterprises in Vietnam such as: QL, CP, MeatDeli, Ba Huan, San Ha...
SFA assesses the potential for heat-processed chicken products from Vietnam to soon be considered for official import approval into Singapore, hoping that poultry eggs and other meat products can meet the requirements in the future.
Singapore also hopes that Vietnam will coordinate more closely in technical exchanges between SFA and Vietnamese agencies, hoping that the assessment process will be completed by the end of February 2025 with good results.
Dr. Abdul Jalil, Assistant General Director of SFA, also added that by the end of February 2025, SFA will conduct online assessments of a number of Vietnamese factories to complete the appraisal process according to Singapore's regulations.
Ambassador Tran Phuoc Anh expressed that the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore is ready to support and facilitate trade in goods between Vietnam and Singapore. The two sides have agreed to update each other on regulations to ensure that local regulations are soon updated for businesses of the two countries.
Source: https://baoquocte.vn/dai-su-quan-xuc-tien-mo-cua-thi-truong-san-pham-thit-va-trung-gia-cam-viet-nam-vao-singapore-304858.html
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