Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade), incoordination with overseas Vietnamese trade offices and the US Agency forInternational Development (USAID), is hosting an online international tradepromotion conference for Vietnamese food and agricultural products.

Thefour-day event, which opened on September 22, has drawn the participation of enterprisesfrom 28 export markets of Vietnam, along with businesses from 12 Vietnamese provincesand cities.  

VietradeDirector Vu Ba Phu said this is the largest ever online trade promotion eventin the food and agricultural product sector.

Henoted that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply chains in the sector,while demand for food has not decreased.

Therefore,Vietrade has been holding a series of online trade promotion conferences toassist domestic agricultural and food businesses in maintaining connectionswith markets, thus easing the negative impacts of the pandemic.

Theconference will include a plenary session which provides Vietnamese businesseswith information on prospects and consumption trends of Vietnamese good andagricultural products in foreign markets, while foreign companies will get updatedon the potential and strength of Vietnamese products.

Besides,one-on-one business matching sessions will be held between Vietnamese suppliersand foreign importers./.