Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (ĐBSCL) là vùng nông nghiệp lớn nhất của cả nước, nổi tiếng trồng lúa, nuôi trồng thủy sản và cây ăn quả nhiệt đới. Trong những năm gần đây, do đa dạng hóa trồng trọt ở đồng bằng sông Cửu Long, nông dân đã và đang từng bước chuyển đổi trồng lúa của họ mono canh để phát triển các loại cây trồng trong thời gian ngắn như rau và cây công nghiệp hàng năm để thiết lập mình trong khả năng để cạnh tranh và tăng năng suất của sản phẩm nông nghiệp và cải thiện đời sống kinh. | THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF VEGETABLES IN THE MEKONG DELTA TOWARDS GAP Dr. Tran Thi Ba Cantho University 1. INTRODUCTION The Mekong Delta MD is biggest agricultural zone of the whole country it s famous for paddy aquaculture and tropical fruit tree. In recent years due to the diversification of cultivation in the Mekong delta the farmers have been gradually switching their paddy mono-cultivation to growing short-duration crops as vegetables and annual industrial crops in order to establish themselves in a capacity to compete and increase productivity of farming products and to improve their household economic living standard. However development of the vegetable production sector has only contributed towards serving domestic conusmption. In parallel with production growth consumer concerns regarding the safety and quality of vegetables have been increasing day by day. There is almost a daily article in different media reporting a case of food poisoning due to high residues in vegetables. Nowadays there are very few safe vegetable stores in some cities of MD such as Cantho An Giang My Tho but in practice the turnover of these stores is still limited. Consumers want safe vegetables but they still lack confidence that the vegetable products available at present in stores are safe. How to ensure domestic consumers feel safe when they buy vegetables and then the export of safe vegetables from Vietnam is one of the most challenging problems in authorities in Vietnam in general and in the MD in particular to tackle. Following the forum of Agricultural Extension @ Technology Safe vegetables Real situation and solution on December 10 2007 and the conference Safe vegetable production and orientation in the year 2010 of South Vietnam provinces on May 7 2008 one of conclusions Beautiful Women Nuginugi Dancingis to apply GAP Good Agriculture Practices in vegetable production. To achieve this it has to be managed through supply chain management of vegetable produced in the MD. Therefore
