As a top 20 food-exporting country, Việt Nam has great potential to tap into the rapidly growing global halal industry, a workshop heard in HCM City on Thursday.
A member of Hùng Nhơn Group, Visakan Investment and Biotechnology Development Joint Stock Company (Visakan), on Thursday in the northern province of Bắc Ninh exported its first shipment of veterinary medicine valued at over US$200,000 to a Halal market.
Experts emphasised the crucial role of standards and certifications during a symposium on the importance of standardisation in boosting Việt Nam''s sustainable participation in the global Halal market on Wednesday in Hà Nội.
According to the Vietnamese ambassadors to Malaysia and Indonesia, the supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine tensions opened up unprecedented opportunities for Vietnamese exporters.
Viet Nam and Malaysia have great potental to promote trade and investment with Malaysia being one of the most important importers of Vietnamese goods in Southeast Asia in the post-pandemic period, a HCM City official said.
Vietnamese food processors have opportunities to tap into the billion-USD Halal market when attending a hybrid exhibition on Halal products and processed food scheduled in late May in Singapore.
As global supply chains for Halal products have been disrupted by the pandemic, Vietnamese companies have been urged to further tap the halal market which has export value of US$34 billion a year, experts said at an online seminar on Apr...