According to statistics from the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), from the beginning of 2023 until now, countries importing Vietnamese agricultural products have detected and warned about more than 370 shipments (bananas, mangoes, dragon fruits, jackfruit, durian…) in 13 provinces and cities in the Southern region with violations of plant quarantine.

Among these warnings, the main one is the announcement from the General Department of Customs of China about many export shipments of durian, dragon fruit, bananas… found to have harmful microorganisms that are subject to Chinese quarantine.

Faced with the above situation, at the end of August 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development chaired a conference on management of planting area codes and agricultural product packaging facilities for export. The conference was attended by representatives of leaders, Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development of southern provinces and many businesses that are exporting to China.

At this conference, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development made it clear that they would request to temporarily suspend exports for a number of growing area codes and packaging facilities that violate plant quarantine regulations according to the notice from the General Department of Customs. China.

Recently, the Plant Protection Department issued a written notice to localities requesting to temporarily suspend the export of 74 planting area codes and request to revoke 47 packaging facility codes that violate plant quarantine regulations according to the Law on Plant Protection. Notice from the General Administration of Customs of China.

The Plant Protection Department requests that units that own violating codes must take measures to clarify the causes and solutions to prevent violations from recurring. Among them are many area codes for growing durian, dragon fruit, bananas… all of which are Vietnam’s main export fruits to the Chinese market.

According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung, the temporary suspension of exploitation of these codes requires businesses and local management agencies to clarify the causes and solutions. Once completed, they will continue to be exported. password back.

Mr. Hoang Trung also affirmed that businesses saying they “unexpectedly” received a notice from the plant quarantine agency to temporarily stop exploiting the codes of growing areas and packaging facilities for export to China is not correct. objective.

 

The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development emphasized that the proactive application of this measure is to tighten the quality management of agricultural products in the Chinese market, when this is a large and very important market. If China continues to detect more shipments imported from Vietnam containing violations, it will greatly affect many other agricultural products being exported to China.

Source: Vietnam Posts English