Nearly 3,000 handicraft villages are facing difficulties in finding markets for their products.
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| Tranh Khuc Village in Hanoi's Thanh Tri District which produces traditional chung cakes. Photo by VnExpress |
Nguyen Nguyen Phuong, Manager of Commercial Management Division, under the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade, said on December 3 at a conference on connecting rural manufacturers with modern and traditional outlets that, "Only 12% of 3,000 handicraft villages have plans for production and distribution."
Phuong said the villages mainly focus on making products for local consumption and do not have sufficient manufacturing capacity to sell on national wide scale, much less for export. Meanwhile, their own outlets are scattered and small in number, Phuong added.
Though many manufacturers would like to find a place in HCMC for sales, they said it is not an easy task. Since they are still unknown to many people, the distributors often refuse to co-operate.
Handicrafts are mostly made within households, which is why producing the goods en mass along with selling the merchandise is so difficult.
Nguyen Xuan Hai, head of Big C Supermarket said, the handicraft villages must ensure the quality of their products, prices, hygiene and sales promotion programmes in agreement with the supermarket.
The representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said they will organise three fairs for rural industrial products and vote on the best products for promotion.
