Vietnam capital Hanoi promotes IT application to increase farm produce consumption

Hanoi promotes using QR codes for farm produce to help consumers quickly trace the origin of the products. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, June 12 (Vietnam News/ANN): The capital city of Hanoi is promoting information technology (IT), including the use of QR codes, in traceability to increase the consumption of farm produce on e-commerce platforms.

Director of the Hanoi Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Quality Management Sub-Department Nguyen Thi Thu Hang said that at present, Hanoi's agro-food product traceability system had improved transparency in information for about 653 businesses with almost 11,000 sets of traceability codes for agricultural, forestry and fishery products.