Overview of the Food Value Chain of Lam Dong

Overview

Having cool climate is the advantage, therefore producing high-value agricultural products.
 
Many countries, including Japan, have been investing in agriculture and food value chains here (55 projects, by late 2018).
 
Developing tourism, the number of domestic tourists increases sharply.
 
 

Agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture

Agriculture: Dalat's vegetables and flowers are famous across the country, competitive and the largest flower supplier for Ho Chi Minh City. The main agricultural products are vegetables, flowers, coffee, and are growing strongly.
 
Able to improve product quality and diversify products thanks to applying farming technology.
 

Consumtion and Market

Food retail: transactions mainly through the traditional retail market.
 
Produce sold to other provinces: Supplying vegetables and flowers, mainly to HCM city.
 
Export: Number 1 is coffee, 2 is flowers, 3 is vegetables, 4 is tea. 80% of coffee is purchased by multinational corporations such as Nestle, Olam, Louis Dreyfus. Bouquets of flowers such as pink, chrysanthemum, carnation, auspicious, lily, orchid.
 

Infrastructure

There is a plan to build a center for flower trading
 
Improved connection with HCM City via an extended highway. 290 km from Ho Chi Minh City, it is expected that the transportation time can be significantly reduced. Now it takes 6 hours.
 

 

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