Recently, the Department of Industry and Trade of Can Tho City in collaboration with the Institute of Strategic Policy and Industry organized a training course on "Improving the efficiency of clean production and export capacity of rice, agricultural products and processed foods", in order to improve professional capacity in state management, enabling enterprises to update their knowledge in boosting the export of goods and cleaner production.

 

The training course was attended by 100 participants, the main participants included: government officials, business leaders and managers of small and medium enterprises in the city.

 

The agricultural product and food processing industry consists of two phases: The first phase is the preprocessing stage; the second stage is the industrial processing stage. The implementation of cleaner production at each stage brings about the efficiency of saving raw materials and fuel respectively.

 

In one day, trainees were studied 2 topics: "Raising the export capacity of rice, agricultural products and processed foods"; "The benefits of applying cleaner production to rice, agricultural and food processing plants."

 

The preprocessing stage is carried out immediately after planning, including: seasoning, drying, selection, storage,... The work of this stage is outside the processing factory, mainly using manual labor with specialized storage and transport facilities, but it determines the extent of post-harvest losses and the quality of the raw materials into processing. This is an important stage that has the meaning of determining the product rank at a later stage. The second stage takes place in processing factories employing technical workers along with the necessary machinery and equipment. This is a critical stage in the quality of processed products and the level of value added.

 

Experts from the Institute for Strategic and Industrial Policy Studies have provided basic knowledge about cleaner production and the benefits of cleaner production implementation at different stages of the rice production and processing process in specific and foods in general, as well as the importance of cleaner production to industrial manufacturing enterprises. 

 

In addition, the training course gives the trainees an overview and orientation of consumption of rice and agricultural commodities in the markets participating in the Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam. The trend of cleaner production, business of the world's food processing and food processing companies; potential in investment in production and business of some products, processed from rice and agricultural products in the period 2017 - 2020 with orientation to 2030; orientation of the state in the management, construction and development of rice and agricultural products production and trading line 2017-2020, orientation to 2030.

 

CPSI Office