HANOI – Siebe van Wijk of international consulting, R&D and trade company Fresh Studio reports on its efforts to create value chains in Vietnam by profiling two key initiatives with local producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vietnam is booming. In recent years, the country has ranked as Asia\u2019s second fastest growing economy after China. Its entry to the WTO last year has opened the door to record high foreign direct investment in many sectors. With Vietnam\u2019s commitment to allowing 100 per cent foreign-owned investments in the retail sector by 2009, many companies are looking to tap into the large consumer market of over 85m people. But opening its markets also means more competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One area where Vietnam is feeling the heat from competition is in the horticulture sector. An influx of products including carrots, potatoes, onions and tomatoes from China and durian and mangosteen from Thailand are threatening Vietnamese
farmers in their own backyard. With its 20 skilled professionals and two offices in Vietnam, Fresh Studio is working to transform the country\u2019s traditional fruit and vegetable distribution channels into more dynamic value chains. The key difference is that firms that participate in a value chain \u2013 farmers, traders and retailers \u2013 form a strategic alliance which focuses on the competitiveness of the overall chain and not just on their own short-term profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+\u00a0Download the complete article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n __________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: AsiaFruit Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Publication date: July 2007<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Also interesting to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HANOI – Siebe van Wijk of international consulting, R&D and trade company Fresh Studio reports on its efforts to create value chains in Vietnam by profiling two key initiatives with local producers. Vietnam is booming. In recent years, the country has ranked as Asia\u2019s second fastest growing economy after China. Its entry to the WTO last […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[205,500,168,499,385,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshstudio.vn\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}