Links between Vietnamese farmers and enterprises seen vital

While cooperatives were identified, together with enterprises, as the core force for agricultural production, quality remained below expectations, says Pham Thi Thu Hien, director of the Plant Phytosanitary Centre 2. — AFP

HANOI: Ensuring the stable and consistent quality of agricultural products of cooperatives is critical to achieving sustainable exports, in which the linkage with enterprises plays a key role. Unstable and sub-standard quality of agricultural products remained the biggest worry for Vietnamese exporters.

Nguyen Trung Dong, principal of the College of Management for Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the export market for agricultural products was expanding.