Dak Lak plays a core role in linking the Central Highlands region in trade promotion and import-export activities on a professional scale.
On the morning of April 26, the Conference on Trade Promotion and Import-Export Development in the Central Highlands took place in the City. Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak province. The conference took place in a combination of live and online, creating favorable conditions for a large number of delegates from the Central Highlands region and many other regions across the country as well as abroad to participate.
The conference focused on exchanging issues of cooperation and chain linkage in production to increase the value of export products of the Central Highlands region; Linking the Central Highlands region in trade promotion and import-export activities on a professional scale; Results of some trade promotion activities on social networking platforms and e-commerce platforms; Current status, opportunities, challenges and solutions for export, import and trade promotion development in 2024 and the coming years for the Central Highlands region.
| Ms. Mai Thu Hien, Department of Financial Planning, Ministry of Industry and Trade gave a speech. (Photo: Truong Minh) |
Mr. Vu Ba Phu, Director of the Department of Trade Promotion, Ministry of Industry and Trade affirmed that the Central Highlands has become a region producing a number of key agricultural products on a large scale, accounting for a high proportion, especially industrial crops, fruit trees. Some of Vietnam’s export products are ranked among the top and second in the region as well as the world, the Central Highlands has contributed many products such as: Coffee, pepper, passion fruit, cashews and macadamia nuts, rubber… Area Growing precious medicinal herbs such as: Ngoc Linh ginseng, string ginseng, red lingzhi mushroom, polyscias fruticosa, polyscias fruticosa, dong quai, rose flower… in the Central Highlands is also developing rapidly to form concentrated medicinal areas. .
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| Mr. Le Tan Dung, Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of Thang Tien Agricultural Production and Services Cooperative, Krong Pac district, Dak Lak province spoke at the conference. (Photo: Truong Minh) |
However, the export turnover of the Central Highlands region is still very low and modest, not commensurate with the region’s potential. In the two years 2022 – 2023, going through the recovery process after the Covid-19 pandemic, the total import-export turnover of the whole region reached about 4.6 billion USD, accounting for less than 1% of the total import-export turnover of the whole region. water. The region’s export structure mainly focuses on some groups of fruit trees, some industrial crops, coffee, spices, medicinal plants, and resource exploitation.
According to Mr. Vu Ba Phu, although the Central Highlands meets all the conditions for development, it currently faces many “bottlenecks” in mechanisms, policies, science and technology, production scale, agricultural product processing, and human resources. High-quality resources, weak facilities and lack of intra-regional connectivity… have created many barriers to trade promotion activities in the domestic market and the development of import-export of goods and services from the region to the outside world. world.
To overcome this difficulty, it requires a change in thinking, awareness, and approach in exploiting the specific advantages of the Central Highlands region, and finding truly effective regional linkage measures to help The Central Highlands region can fully develop its potential and strengths, turning potential into kinetic energy, great potential and resources.
“The provinces need to calculate and link together to agree to develop key strong products for each product group of the region. From there, determine appropriate supply chain and value chain models to exploit the best product values. Businesses need to promptly update information about foreign markets to grasp consumer tastes in each market, thereby adjusting products accordingly to each market, improving product competitiveness.”
Representative of the Central Highlands region, Mr. Nguyen Tuan Ha, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province, said that this conference is one of the important events, gathering the participation of a large number of management agencies. in the economic and trade fields of the Central Highlands, industry associations and businesses inside and outside the Central Highlands, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to find advantages, disadvantages and solutions. Feasible to help trade promotion and import-export activities of potential products and strengths of the Central Highlands flourish. The conference is expected to contribute to lifting the Central Highlands region out of its “low-lying” position in foreign trade development, gradually narrowing the gap in income and level of trade development of the region compared to the national average in the coming years. next time.
“Dak Lak province wishes to join with other provinces in the Central Highlands region to connect the region’s production value chain with the consumption needs of provinces, cities, regions and regions across the country, as well as export and participate more and more. deep into the global value chain. Let’s work together to improve the effectiveness of trade promotion, import-export development in the Central Highlands region, and support the region’s products and services to find appropriate market directions in the context of the world’s economic situation. The world is becoming more complicated.”- said Mr. Nguyen Tuan Ha – Vice Chairman of Dak Lak Provincial People’s Committee.
On the sidelines of the conference, activities took place to display, introduce and promote products of about 80 businesses, suppliers of goods and services inside and outside the Central Highlands region with export businesses and promotion organizations. commerce.
According to Congthuong.vn
