The annual event will connect participating businesses with customers to effectively tap into the local market. - Photo Thanh Tam

HA NOI (Biz Hub) — More than 300 domestic and foreign enterprises will participate at the International Agriculture Trade Fair (AgroViet 2016), slated to be held in the capital city from November 11 to 15. 

Dao Van Ho, director of Viet Nam Trade Promotion Centre for Agriculture ,the event's organiser, said the forthcoming fair will showcase quality farm produce and introduce machines and technology use for agricultural production and food processing. 

"The annual event will connect participating businesses with customers to effectively tap into the local market," he said.

He added that a workshop on producing and distributing clean and safe agricultural goods and a meeting between Vietnamese and Chinese enterprises which specialize in farming machinery and equipment will be organised on the sidelines of the event. 

The country generated US$12.5 billion from the export of main farming products in the first 10 months of this year, up 7.8 per cent against the same period last year, with coffee and pepper being the highest earners with $2.76 billion and $1.29 billion, up 25.4 per cent and 35.7 per cent year-on-year, respectively. —VNS