Viet Nam is to tighten inspection of local agricultural products and packaging in a response to recent incidents in which products from the Southeast Asian country were reported to show signs of deliberate tampering with registered trademarks and origins.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong plans to ban non-local agricultural products from sale at Da Lat Agricultural Products Market beginning on Sept 15.
Policies remain discouraging to production and trading of local agricultural products, research findings by the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development.
