Lat weekend, Socodevi Organization (Canada) and the School of Agriculture and Rural Development Managers II under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a workshop to review the Vietnam Cooperative Development Project (VCED) with the theme ‘7 years - a road to improve livelihoods for Vietnamese farmers’ to look at any difficulties that need to be improved in order to support the sustainable development of cooperatives in Vietnam.
Funded by Canada and jointly implemented by Socodevi Organization and the School of Management for Agriculture and Rural Development II, the project has helped improve cooperatives’ competitiveness through a variety of activities such as training for farmers, strengthening of governance, upgrades to equipment, marketing, branding, and others.
The project has deployed five new large-scale cooperatives including Ben Tre Green Green Pomelo Cooperative, Evergreen Ninh Thuan Grape Cooperative, Don Duong Dairy Cow Cooperative, Evergrowth Dairy Cow Cooperative, and Thanh Binh Co-operative’s dragon fruit. Of them, the Ben Tre Grapefruit Cooperatives, the Evergreen Ninh Thuan and the Thanh Binh Cooperatives were selected to participate in the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Project 167.
