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Farmers are spending more time and effort to make safe food, but many customers are unwilling to pay more for the products.
Demand for 'safe' food is high, but it’s not easy to sell
A loudspeaker and audio device shop has arisen on Luong Dinh Cua intersection, taking the place of a food shop which shut down just several months after opening.
Urban consumers willing to pay more for safe food
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese consumers are getting choosier and are now willing to pay more for safe food.
More food demand for Tet, more risks
VietNamNet Bridge – Loose quality management and high prices prevent
many citizens from accessing safe food as Tet (Lunar New Year)
approaches.
City-dwellers plant vegetables, breed fish on the roof
VietNamNet Bridge - To have safe food, many residents have turned the roof of their houses into gardens and fish ponds. This has become a trend in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City.
New PM can talk the talk, can he walk the walk?
VietNamNet Bridge – Earlier this week, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan
Phuc, who has been in his post for three months, asked his cabinet to be
pioneers in practising thriftiness and cutting spending.
Businesses join hands with foreign partners to produce safe food
VietNamNet Bridge - Consumers’ worry about food hygiene has turned out to be a great opportunity for food processors. Many businesses have poured money into projects to produce safe food.
Firms vie for safe food ventures
Amid growing concerns in Việt Nam about unsafe food, many foreign and local firms are exploring opportunities to produce safe food in the country.
Fishermen, locals suffer in wake of fish deaths
There has yet to be a definitive conclusion on
the cause of mass fish deaths in the central region, but nonetheless,
local residents whose diets rely on seafood and fishermen living along
the coast from Ha Tinh to Thua Thien-Hue have been suffering.
Ensuring food safety requires participation of entire society: PM
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has underlined the need to identify the
responsibilities of agencies concerned with food safety management,
especially the role played by their chiefs.
Major cities to strengthen hygiene inspections
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi authorities will tighten food safety
management and inspection during the Food Safety Action Month taking
place in all provinces and cities nationwide from April 15.
Vietnamese consumers favor natural over artificial food
While more and more food safety and hygiene violation cases have been
uncovered recently, sharing fresh food is not only popular among
friends and colleagues but has also become a big campaign in residential
quarters.
Struggling to eat safely to avoid the “death”
While many people have unhygienic, anti-science and
insatiable eating habits, some others try to maintain the clean,
scientific eating habits and are struggling to find ways to eat foods
that contain no chemicals.
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 7/1
Former poor district in City now poverty free; Nearly VND400 billion for policy beneficiaries during Tet; Scholarships for disadvantaged; Safe food push ramped up
