On July 26, at Xuan Huong Ward - Da Lat (old Da Lat City), the Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City coordinated with Lam Dong Province to organize a preliminary review of the coordination work in management and connection of consumption of safe agricultural products and food between Ho Chi Minh City and Lam Dong Province in 2024.
Coordinate inspection, supervision and handling of violations of food safety.
At the conference, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phuc, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Lam Dong province, said that after the merger, Lam Dong is the province with the largest area in the country (24,233 km2 ) with a population of more than 3.87 million people. Lam Dong has agricultural specialties that are superior to other regions such as: vegetables, flowers, tea, coffee, durian, dragon fruit and seafood....
The province's agricultural cultivation area is about 1,052,000 hectares, of which about 107,306 hectares are high-tech agricultural production. The whole province currently has about 149,760 hectares certified for safe and sustainable production; there are 960 export growing area codes with a total area of 39,363.3 hectares and 33 packaging facility codes for the province's key agricultural products such as durian, dragon fruit, grapefruit, passion fruit... fully meeting the requirements of export markets such as Australia, New Zealand, China, the United States, the EU, Switzerland, Korea and Japan.
The total aquaculture area of the province is maintained stable with 6,694 hectares; 104,138 m3 of offshore cages; 144 aquatic seed production facilities. Aquaculture output is estimated at 31,140 tons of all kinds; exploited products are estimated at 249.8 thousand tons of aquatic products of all kinds. The whole province has about 388 pig farms, 110 cattle farms, 149 large-scale poultry farms and over 1,000 medium-scale farms.
Currently, the whole province has 934 OCOP products including 927 3-star OCOP products and 90 4-star OCOP products. In addition, currently in the province, there are over 700 products using the brand "Da Lat - Miraculous crystallization from the good land"
Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety, information in 2024 Lam Dong province (old) has 5 facilities participating in the project to build a pilot model for food management according to the "safe food chain" for vegetables, tubers, fruits, pork products supplied to the Ho Chi Minh City market with a total average output of more than 2,835 tons of vegetables, tubers, fruits/year and 1,330 tons of pork/year.
As of early July 2025, Lam Dong province (old) had 18 establishments participating in the "safe food chain" project, of which 12 vegetable and fruit establishments participated in the chain with a total output of 19,888 tons of vegetables and fruits/year, accounting for 88.93% of the total output of the vegetable and fruit chain, and 6 pig farming establishments with a total output of 8,081 tons/year, accounting for 6.97% of the total output of the pork chain.
Through screening, 79 production facilities in Lam Dong province have achieved safety certification to supply fresh agricultural, forestry and aquatic products to the Ho Chi Minh City market.
In 2024, the Department of Food Safety deployed the collection of 332 samples of vegetables and fruits originating from Lam Dong province to test for pesticide residues. The test results showed that 331 samples were safe for pesticide residues and only 1 sample was detected with pesticide residues exceeding the prescribed level.
Over the past year, the Canadian-funded "Food Safety for Development" project (SAFEGRO Project) has been implemented in Lam Dong province. Accordingly, the project supports information, communication, training, and promotion for establishments producing quality, safe products; consumers identify quality, safe agricultural, forestry, and fishery products through mass media, information pages, e-commerce, and media publications...
Building must be stronger than fighting.
Ms. Pham Khanh Phong Lan, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety, said that the Department is coordinating the management and connection of safe agricultural products and food consumption with 15 provinces and cities, of which Lam Dong alone supplies 90% of the total output of the vegetable, fruit and root chain and 6.97% of the total output of the pork chain for Ho Chi Minh City. That is the reason why the Department chose Lam Dong as the first province to summarize the cooperation process, and continue to coordinate the management and connection of agricultural product consumption in the coming years.
According to Ms. Lan, recently the press has reflected on the fight against counterfeit and poor quality goods more than on good and quality goods. In reality, there are many safe product chains that need to be promoted and reflected by the press to be spread more widely. "We need to build a stronger fight so that consumers know about quality and safe products," Ms. Lan said.
The Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Lam Dong province to guide agricultural production establishments to periodically report on output and types consumed in Ho Chi Minh City; organize food safety supervision for products produced in Lam Dong province consumed in Ho Chi Minh City. The Department of Food Safety continues to organize the reception and issuance of certificates of eligibility to participate in the "safe food chain" according to the regulations on granting and revoking certificates issued by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City for participating production establishments of Lam Dong province.
Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/tp-hcm-lam-dong-ket-noi-tieu-thu-nong-san-thuc-pham-an-toan-1019233.html
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