Award to foster industry in rural areas

October 15, 2015 | 14:00

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On October 17, the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Agency for Regional Industry Development (ARID) is going to hold an award ceremony to honour 100 industrial products from small and medium entreprises in rural areas.

In order to be eligible for the award, the product has to be original, and its production cannot violate any intellectual and industrial property regulations, and meet quality, labour, food, and environment safety standards. The product should also be able to be produced on a large scale. Companies can nominate their own products which then go through four rounds of voting in the district, provincial, regional and national rounds.

This year the award honours 25 products in the crafts group, 40 in the agricultural, forestry, seafood, and beverage products group, 25 in the equipment, machinery, and tools group and 10 products in the “others” groups. The products are evenly distributed among the cities and provinces in all regions of the country.

According to Ngo Quang Trung, head of the ARID, the honouring of these products reflects the government’s effort to support industrial development, especially in rural areas.

“The award is a way to encourage companies in rural areas to continue as well as improve production and make use of their locality’s unique advantages,” he said.

Awardees are going to receive support from the government in production and trade. They get to print the award’s logo on their products, receive free consultancy by local industrial and trade departments on the tax and other types of incentives they get, as well as funding to fuel production.

By By Khanh Tran

What the stars mean:

★ Poor ★ ★ Promising ★★★ Good ★★★★ Very good ★★★★★ Exceptional