The project for the development and establishment of a medicinal herb industry hub in Quang Nam Province, with Ngọc Linh ginseng as the key crop has been approved.

With a rich and diverse medicinal herb resource base, Hanoi is focusing on developing specialised cultivation areas and establishing production, preservation, and processing chains, aiming to make medicinal herbs a key crop.

Vietnamese businesses which want to export medicinal herbs to China must submit information about growing areas and packaging establishments to the provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development.

There remains large room for Vietnam to promote the export of medicinal herbs to Japan, especially when many Japanese pharmaceutical companies are planning to import these products from the Southeast Asian country, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan.

The mountainous northern province of Lao Cai hopes to almost double its medicinal herb growing area in the next 10 years, expecting to achieve a yearly output of more than 11,000 tonnes.

The brand of Ngoc Linh ginseng needs protection as a national one, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a conference on developing Ngoc Linh ginseng and other medicinal herbs in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on September 6.

The Truong Sinh Group on March 1 started construction of a hi-tech medicinal herb and food processing complex at Tra Da Industrial Park in Pleiku city, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.