HCMC
– Vietnam’s export sector holds great potential of meeting high German demand
for quality aqua-products and coffee, said the State Secretary at Germany’s
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.
Robert Kloos told reporters at the Food and
Hotel Vietnam 2011 in HCMC on Wednesday that German consumers wanted
aqua-products from different markets, including Vietnam. Therefore, he called
for Vietnamese companies to speed up exports, particularly basa fish, to the
German market.
Kloos said Vietnam’s basa was one of the
products that German consumers favored.
Coffee is one of Vietnam’s major export earners
in its trade with the biggest economy in Europe. Kloos said Germany was also
interested in buying Vietnamese coffee.
Kloos demonstrated Germany imported more than
500 million euros worth of goods from Vietnam last year, including 160 million
euros worth of aqua-products and 250 million euros of coffee. Sales of these
two products rose 6% and 15% respectively over 2009.
Shipments of Germany’s agricultural products
to Vietnam are still low compared to other markets in Asia. Last year, the
European country earned about US$70 million from exporting food and beverages
to Vietnam while Germany shipped agricultural goods worth around US$250 million
and US$500 million to Hong Kong and Japan respectively.
Therefore, Kloos said there remained much
potential in the expanding Vietnamese market for German companies to tap and
export more dairy products, meat and bread and other products. This is why he
and other officials of the German government as well as German companies are
taking part in the Food and Hotel Vietnam to promote products of their country.
Kloos pinned high hopes that Germany’s
participation in the food and hotel show and his trip to Vietnam would help
create a breakthrough in trade in this area between Germany and the emerging
economy in the Southeast Asia.
Kloos said he had discussed with Vietnam’s
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development about use of high technology for
the agricultural sector and that Germany was ready to assist in this area.
However, Kloos said Vietnam needed to meet
certain conditions if the country wanted to develop a hi-tech agricultural
sector. An example is a farm with about three employees and several cows is
unable to apply high technology and should not do this, he noted.
Kloos also underscored the importance of
greater efforts for human resource development in Vietnam for the agricultural
sector and having consultancy from the countries owning high technology in
agricultural production, and Germany had experiences in this.
Kloos said Germany had an advanced
agricultural sector as it started to develop its agricultural sector 20-30
years ago. During this period, German companies have applied technological
advances to diversify and turn out products that match consumers’ increasing
demand for quality.
By Mong Binh - The Saigon Times Daily
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