Remove difficulties in consuming agricultural products during the time of nCoV

February 11, 2020

VTV24 News Center - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 06:10 GMT + 7

Upon receiving information about the time to exchange border residents from Guangxi province, China, the Ministry of Industry and Trade also made comments and recommendations for cross-border import and export activities.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that not only Guangxi, but Yunnan Province, China will likely make the same decision in the context of the complicated development of the epidemic. The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes businesses to take measures to regulate output at this time, to continue restricting bringing goods to the border, except for official export.

Logistics enterprises prioritize preservation, reducing storage, transportation and loading costs. The distribution businesses, trade centers, supermarkets ... continue to support the consumption of agricultural products in difficulty.

Continue to promote import and export activities in the border areas

At the border gates allowed to control customs clearance, after nearly a week, import and export activities are continuing to be promoted. All cargo vehicles must strictly follow epidemic prevention measures such as spraying disinfectant, delivering and delivering goods at the prescribed places and separating drivers according to the process.

After 2 days of customs clearance, at Lao Cai International Border Gate, more than 20 vehicles of agricultural products were exported to China and imported more than 200 vehicles of vegetables, tubers and fruits. In Lang Son, every day there are about 50 agricultural vehicles such as dragon fruit, watermelon, jackfruit ... exported through Huu Nghi border gate. The total amount of cleared cargo up to now is about 300 vehicles. There are still more than 350 other vehicles stuck at the secondary border gates in the province.

Facing export situation facing many difficulties, functional units recommend that enterprises should anticipate every situation to have a solution to change the method of delivery, export redirection or domestic consumption. , avoid being cornered to a gate and causing congestion and suffering.

The government has also proposed domestic retailers to boost consumption to support dragon fruit and watermelon growers. Many domestic distribution chains have made buying and connecting activities with large fruit tree areas, even accepting no profits to bring agricultural products to consumers.

Promote domestic agricultural product consumption.

Employees come to the garden to buy at the original price and resell at a low price, not profit to consumers to stimulate demand. That is how many retail systems in Hanoi are implementing. Currently dragon fruits and watermelons are sold at Vinmart supermarket systems only for 6,900 VND / kg.

Particularly in Long An, there are currently about 30,000 tons of dragon congested output. This locality also urgently implemented many solutions to support people such as connecting with supermarket chains and processing enterprises in other localities across the country.

Each year, Vietnam produces more than 1.5 million tons of dragon fruits. About 80% of which is exported to China. The suspension of operations at many border gates due to epidemics is a major pressure for both growers and authorities.

Netizens called for "rescuing" agricultural products that survive the nCoV

Not only distribution chains and retailers but also consumers are showing their spirit and responsibility when actively consuming fruit products that are facing difficulties due to epidemics.

For more than two weeks now, social networks have started making calls. Not only stop at the call, many spontaneous clues have appeared, volunteering to become "rescue teams" with watermelons, dragon fruit survived by nCoV.

Despite the rainy and cold weather in Hanoi or in the dry, sunny weather of Ho Chi Minh City, the actual images of volunteer "rescue" of agricultural products are constantly updated and shared on social networks, creating should be a real wave of sympathy and support in the community.

Over VND 30,000 billion of loan balance was reduced lending rates

The outstanding loans of businesses affected by the acute respiratory infection caused by the new strain of Corona virus will be reduced by the lending interest rate from February 11 to April 30.

The interest rate will be reduced by 1% / year for short-term loans in VND; reduction of 1.5% / year for medium and long term. Particularly for borrowers in USD, the interest rate will be reduced by 0.5% / year for short term and 0.75% / year for medium and long term.

4 groups of customers are reduced mainly including warehousing transportation; travel services, restaurants, hotels; food and alcoholic beverages. In particular, businesses with major import and export activities with the Chinese market including many industries such as agriculture, fisheries, textiles, footwear ... are also subjects of interest reduction priority. Previously, many other banks such as Agribank, An Binh, HDBank ... also committed to reducing lending rates, and at the same time, considering debt structure, debt freezing, debt rescheduling for businesses affected by nCoV. .

People join hands to support the consumption of agricultural products, banks lower interest rates, logistics businesses are willing to reduce from 10 to 20% of storage costs for agricultural products in difficulty. The sustainable development of an enterprise must not only be based on the profits they make, but must also be based on their responsibility to the community. Affordable, the disease this time is also a reagent for those responsibilities.

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