Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Tran Chau met with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

On the afternoon of April 12, 2016 at the Office of Binh Dinh People’s Committee, Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Tran Chau had a meeting with Mr. Mike Burrell, Director of Sustainable Economic Development Division – the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The meeting was also attended by leading representatives of Agriculture and Rural Development Department and Foreign Affairs Department.

Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Tran Chau (right) met with Mr. Mike Burrell at the Office of Binh Dinh People’s Committee.

At the meeting, Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Tran Chau expressed his thanks and highly appreciated the great support and assistance from New Zealand Government for Binh Dinh Province in the past few years in such fields as healthcare, education, agriculture, etc…Particularly, since 2009, the New Zealand Government has assisted Binh Dinh Province to implement the project “Binh Dinh Sustainable Rural Livelihoods - Connecting Farmers to Markets” with three components: VietGAP Certified Safe Vegetables, increasing income from coconut trees, and high quality beef cattle production.

Up to now, all components have ensured the set requirements, bringing socio-economic benefits, creating sustainable rural livelihoods and connecting farmers to markets as well as improving food safety for consumers. The project has created stable job opportunities for thousands of rural workers, helping them increase their income and improve their living standard through participating in the components of safe vegetables, high quality beef cattle production. Vice Chairman hoped that New Zealand Government would continue to support Binh Dinh to implement phase 2 – the component of safe vegetables in order to widen production processes, reducing the cost of final product and widely spreading the agricultural products throughout the province, especially in ethnic minority localities.

Mr. Mike Burrell expressed his gratitude for warm and hospitable welcome from Binh Dinh leaders; at the same time, felt very happy when he knew about positive results of the project "Sustainable Rural Livelihoods" for farmers in Binh Dinh Province. He also said that after the visit he would propose to New Zealand Government to promote the support and assistance to implement phase 2 of the project.

In the afternoon, Mr. Mike Burrell had a field visit to the VietGAP certified safe vegetable model funded by the New Zealand Government in Phuoc Hiep Commune, Tuy Phuoc District.

Thang Nguyen (Source: Nguyen Han/baobinhdinh.com.vn)

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