Accordingly, a chicken processing factory in Chuong My district, Hanoi, has become the first business in Vietnam to be licensed to export processed chicken products to Russia.
To make inroads into the market, Vietnamese firms need to meet strict standards on raising, slaughtering and processing, as well as ensuring biological and food safety, disease-free products and traceability.
Now that Vietnam is allowed to export processed chicken to Russia, this means the country could also export to other EAEU members, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. Earlier, in 2017, the Department of Animal Health successfully negotiated the export of processed chicken to Japan.
The expanded export markets for processed chicken will help to increase the added value of the poultry industry in Vietnam, opening a new direction for farmers andreducing dependence on the domestic market, thereby enhancing the position of the Vietnamese livestock industry and also ensuring that high levels of technology meet all relevant standards of food safety.
In order to take advantage of export markets for chicken products in particular and livestock products in general, the Department of Animal Health should enhance its role in guiding enterprises to fully prepare the production and processing conditions of poultry products necessary to meet the standards of quality recommended by the World Organisation for Animal Health and the increasingly stringent requirements and technical barriers of importing countries.
Meanwhile localities should take more effective measures to solve problems for businesses in order to expand their production scale under a closed livestock chain, towards farm models instead of current household farming.
In the near future, more favourable conditions should be created for businesses that already have poultry products being exported to markets around the world; while in-depth research should be focused on developingprocessed products in a certain manner so as to avoid the technical barriers of countries with high quarantine and food safety requirements.
