Hi-tech Agro 2013, the bigger agricultural exhibition hosted by Ho Chi Minh City trade authorities, is a place for local visitors to learn about new technologies in agriculture and buy best products offered by leading Vietnamese food processors

The 5-day event, wrapped up on Sunday evening at Le Van Tam Park in District 1, is also designed to promote local agricultural technologies and produce.

The event, the second of its kind hosted by HCMC Center for Trade Promotion and Investment (ITPC) under HCMC People’s Committee, featured 300 booths of over 200 companies and units from Ho Chi Minh City, the Southeast region and 13 provinces/cities in the Mekong Delta.

With 4 separated areas, it was meeting point for high-tech agricultural enterprises and food processing industrialists from the southern economic hub and 19 provinces/cities of the southern region of Vietnam.

“The exhibition is an opportunity for agricultural and food processing firms of HCMC and the aforementioned provinces to gain the access and grasp the latest scientific and technological advancements and achievements in the field of high-tech agriculture and food industry,” said the organizer.