Vietnam ready to assist Tanzania in agricultural development: ambassador
Vietnam is ready to provide technical support and share experience in agricultural development with Tanzania, Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen Nam Tien said during a recent meeting with the host country’s Minister of Agriculture Adolf Faustine Mkenda.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen Nam Tien (Photo: VNA)
Pretoria (VNA) – Vietnam is ready to provide technical support and share experiencein agricultural development with Tanzania, Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen NamTien said during a recent meeting with the host country’s Minister ofAgriculture Adolf Faustine Mkenda.
At the workingsession in Dodoma capital on June 17, Tien said the two countries boastconsiderable potential for cooperation in crop cultivation, animal husbandry,aquaculture, and forestry.
He alsointroduced Vietnam’s agricultural strengths to the Tanzania minister, notingthat Vietnam earned more than 41 billion USD from agricultural exports in 2020,with the US being the largest importer, followed by China, the EU, ASEAN, andJapan.
Congratulating Mkendaon his reappointment as Minister of Agriculture, one of the most importanteconomic sectors in Tanzania, the diplomat expressed his delight at the recentstrides in the countries’ relations and spoke highly of the outcomes in bilateralcooperation in bilateral and multilateral aspects
For his part,Minister Mkenda highlighted their countries’ sound relations throughouthistory, noting that in agriculture, Tanzania prioritises developing cropvarieties and animal breeds, boosting production supporting services, increasingirrigation, expanding markets for agricultural exports, providing finance, and managingdiseases
He askedVietnam to share experience in developing such key farm produce as rice,coffee, tea, and cashew nuts while calling on Vietnamese enterprises to invest in building agricultural processing factories in his country.
The two sidesshared the view on the importance of signing agreements, firstly those on doubletaxation avoidance and investment facilitation and protection,so as to create a legal framework for bilateral cooperation.
Ambassador Tienalso welcomed Tanzania attending a Vietnam - Africa conference on agricultureto be chaired by the Southeast Asian nation in late 2021./.
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Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen Nam Tien (Photo: VNA) 
