en.Wedoany.com Reported - Starting July 1, 2026, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Vietnam officially launched a national agricultural product traceability system, integrating previously fragmented traceability management into a unified data platform. The system aims to enhance supply chain transparency, strengthen food safety supervision, and boost the export competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural products.
Previously, localities and enterprises in Vietnam established separate traceability systems based on different export market demands, resulting in inconsistent data standards and difficulties in information sharing. As major markets such as China, the European Union, the United States, and Japan increasingly demand higher food safety and supply chain transparency, establishing a unified national traceability platform has become an urgent need for Vietnam's agricultural development.
The platform adopts an open architecture, integrating technologies such as blockchain, digital signatures, GS1 coding, and QR codes, enabling full-process traceability of agricultural products from production and processing to distribution. Consumers can query product origins, while enterprises and regulatory authorities can conduct quality management, risk warnings, and full-process supervision.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Vietnam noted that some agricultural product exports were previously hindered not by quality issues but by a lack of complete and credible traceability data. The unified platform will break down data silos between the government, localities, enterprises, and cooperatives, providing more standardized and transparent information support for agricultural product exports.
After six months of trial operation, the platform has covered 24 provinces and cities nationwide, connected 170 enterprises, and involved over 18,500 products. Among them, 16 durian export enterprises have successfully exported six containers of durians to China using electronic traceability data.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung stated that agricultural product traceability has become an inevitable requirement for modern agricultural development. In the future, Vietnam will continue to expand the platform's application scope, prioritizing key export agricultural products, thereby promoting the digital transformation of agriculture and enhancing national governance capacity as well as the international competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural products.
