Thanh Hoa province is known as a locality with many advantages in terms of climate, land, and many unique agricultural products... Realizing that, many enterprises, organizations, and cooperatives in the province have focused on investing in the fields of agriculture and processing industry, gradually affirming the position of local agricultural products in domestic and foreign markets. This is considered a positive signal in agricultural product export in recent years.
Chili products of Sao Mai Food Import-Export and Trading Joint Stock Company (Thanh Hoa City) are stored in a cold storage before being exported.
Realizing that chili is an easy-to-grow, easy-to-care-for plant that brings high economic efficiency, in 2018, Sao Mai Food Import-Export and Trading Joint Stock Company (Thanh Hoa City) started purchasing, producing and supplying chili to the market in and outside the province. The company's chili products are often supplied to supermarkets, food stores and collective kitchens. From its success in the domestic market, the company always "desires" to conquer the international market. After a long period of research, in 2021, the company expanded into the field of exporting chili products. From the first chili export order to the Korean market, the company has now reached markets in countries and territories such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai, the company director, said: "At first, when we decided to seek opportunities to export goods, I and the company's leadership team were very worried because the export requirements in foreign markets were very high, and the ability to connect and find markets was limited. However, with the determination and support of specialized units and the provincial agricultural sector, chili orders were successfully exported." Currently, the company's export orders focus largely on the Chinese and Korean markets, supplying about 1,000 tons of products each year. The larger the order, the more stringent the requirements. Every year, export markets have documents regulating national standards on food safety... In particular, the prerequisite is to issue codes for growing areas and packaging facilities for exported chili, only use pesticides in the list of pesticides allowed for use in Vietnam and strictly follow the quarantine period to ensure that pesticide residues do not exceed the regulations of the import market. In addition, there are a series of other regulations on packaging, labels, and product traceability. Therefore, when the finished product is released, the company will immediately eliminate products that do not meet the standards. In the coming time, the company will continue to increase the export output of chili products, while expanding consumption to the Mongolian market.
Aiming to be one of the leading enterprises in developing environmentally friendly products from bamboo, Vibabo Company Limited, Tan Thanh Commune (Thuong Xuan) has researched and produced bamboo straws and bamboo pens. Sharing about the "fate" with bamboo, Mr. Le Xuan Lam, the company director, said: "In 2018, when my family went to the forest to play, my nephew was thirsty and asked for a straw to drink, as usual, I chopped a bamboo segment to make a straw. From that moment on, the idea of making bamboo straws was "cherished" by me every day". After 6 months of research and exploration, Mr. Lam and his younger brother immediately started to implement it. Thanks to understanding the current market psychology of limiting plastic products, which are not environmentally friendly, and instead using products of natural origin, the company's products are trusted by the domestic market, including both retail customers and wholesale customers who are large enterprises.
With that success, Mr. Lam continues to promote his hometown's typical products to international friends. Since April 2023, the company has exported the first order of bamboo straws to the Korean market with a quantity of 3.5 million bamboo straws and 3,000 bamboo pens. This is considered a good sign for a new business entering the export market. According to the 2024 plan, Vibabo Company Limited will continue to supply goods to domestic units and businesses; at the same time, expand the export market to countries such as China, Japan, etc.
Up to now, in Thanh Hoa province, there have been about 43 enterprises participating in exporting agricultural products to 30 countries and territories. Of which, the Chinese market accounts for about 52% of the export value, Taiwan accounts for 10%, Korea accounts for 6.5%, EU accounts for 10%... In general, the product quality and packaging designs of enterprises and units are increasingly improved and more suitable for importing countries.
Currently, businesses are making efforts to seek, expand and diversify markets, especially markets of countries participating in free trade agreements. At the same time, they are proactively participating in the global commodity value chain to increase production and export capacity for Thanh Hoa agricultural products.
Article and photos: Chi Pham
Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/nhung-nguoi-dua-nong-san-xuat-ngoai-218159.htm
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