<p></p><p>That is the information provided by the local Industry Department (MOIT) and the Vietnam Cashew Association announced at the seminar "Current situation and measures to improve product quality post-processing of cashew nuts in the agricultural industry base village ", which took place on the morning of 31/5, at Dong Xoai town (Binh Phuoc). <br></p> <p>Seminar by the Department of Local Industry in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry held in Binh Phuoc province, with the participation of Huynh Anh Minh - BTV Commissioner, Deputy Chairman and representatives of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade East South, businesses and cashew processing facilities in and outside the province. <br></p> <p>Reports at the Seminar of the Department of Local Industry and Vietnam Cashew Association shows, reality preserving individual post-processing is a matter of concern for local businesses. Actual signs appeared not guarantee food safety in many processing units that. Vietnam Cashew Association said that many businesses have not shown professionalism in the production, processing, suffer unnecessary errors but kept repeating. In such cases it fumigated factories excessive; use detergent to clean the individual containers; for poultry in the drying conditions; for termites into the individual ... <br></p> <p>Pham Van Cong - Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Cashew Association said the US and European market is very "hard". 2015 cashew exported some US container is returned when the partner found a worm in the shipment, damage is huge. <br></p> <p>Mr. Gong said, there are 151 cashew processing enterprises with large-scale enterprises but only 30 achieved HACCP, ISO 9001, ISO 14000, ISO 22000, BRC. That shows that many business sectors, investment processing facilities are not all the equipment is not in sync. Leaders of the Association said that Vietnam has over the era craft production; instead of the technology. Business sector investment without modern processing technology including the processing, preservation could not be better. That means that the product can not be exported to the market "difficult" is. <br></p> <p>Discussion at the workshop, Mr. Tran Van Son - Director of JSC cashews Jiabao, said: "Machinery and equipment is one of the factors that greatly affect the product creation process, decided to nature of products. If the machinery and equipment as a modern, high-precision production processes are less frequent defects, product quality will be improved, and vice versa. Therefore, the application of machinery and modern equipment in production will improve product quality, increase productivity, reduce product costs, increase market competitiveness. However, the cost of all kinds of machinery and equipment for the industry is quite high, so the application in the production and processing conditions were difficult. Therefore, companies need capital support from the State's policy to invest in development. " <br></p> <p>Presentation of the participants emphasized the following factors: besides the technological development investment in this sector will also need to improve the quality of human resources, especially human resources in management roles. <br></p> <p>Some suggested local cashew processing establishments need to conduct the planning, check reorder business hub in a downward trend, decreasing small processing facilities. Stop operation of the processing units are not eligible hygiene food hygiene and safety. Improving the processing capacity at the facility is conditional; Cutting sewing automation hardware shelling cashews and cashew shell silk. <br></p> <p>In addition, the need to increase funding support from industrial promotion, investment priorities technological innovation modern advanced equipment; continue to support businesses through public policies to improve enterprise management. Compliance with procedures and regulations on the production, packaging and storage of post-processing product quality stability. Consumer products from cashew nuts should have brands, trademarks and registered product quality on packages of products. To accelerate the implementation of the trade promotion at home and abroad, organizing supply connection - bridge between production units with delivery systems under development objective to promote domestic consumption. Brand product development associated with implementing quality standard announcement, ensure food safety and applied the ISO 2200, HACCP, GMP ... in the production process. <br></p> <p>Ms. Do Thi Minh Tram - Deputy Director of Local Industry stressed that to keep things the national brand, keep No. 1 in export conditions, the consensus needed to change the perception of businesses about the need ensure food safety and hygiene have to be post-processing. Tram She also said that the solution should have synchronized development of the cashew sector. <br></p> <p>Currently in our country, cashew is considered as one of seven agricultural products with exports over $ 1 billion / year (rice, rubber, coffee, cashew, pepper, vegetables, cassava) . As one of the countries producing and exporting the world's largest cashew export market with far more than 80 countries and territories, including major US, Europe and China. In 2015, an area of ​​292,000 hectares which is the country, down nearly 3,300 ha; that the average yield in 2015 was 12.1 kg / ha, an increase of 0.1 kg / ha; the output of domestic production over 345,000 tons by 2015. Regarding the cashew processing country has about 465 cashew processing enterprise with more than 1,000 production facilities, including 46 large-scale plants with a total processing capacity of over 1 million tons of crude / year. In 2015, according to the Vietnam Cashew Association, the total volume of cashew nuts for processing is 1,325 million tons, of which 850 thousand tons imported.<br></p><p></p>