| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------------ |
| No: 80/2002/QD-TTg | Hanoi, June 24, 2002 |
DECISION
ON POLICIES TO ENCOURAGE THE CONTRACTUAL SALE OF COMMODITY FARM PRODUCE
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- The State encourages enterprises of all economic sectors to sign contracts on sales of commodity farm produce (including agricultural, forestrial and aquatic products) and salt with producers (cooperatives, peasant households, farms, peasant households representatives) with a view to linking production with processing and consumption of commodity farm produce to develop production in a stable and sustainable manner.
The contracts, after being signed, shall serve as legal basis for binding the parties in their responsibilities and obligations, protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the raw materials producers and the production, business, processing and exporting enterprises under the contractual provisions.
Article 2.- The contracts on sales of commodity farm produce must be signed with producers right at the beginning of crop seasons, the beginning of the year or the beginning of a production cycle. For the immediate future, to sign contracts on sales of products being major export items: rice, aquatic products, tea, coffee, pepper, rubber, cashew nuts, fruits, mulberry, meat, and major industrially processed products for domestic consumption: cotton, sugarcane, tobacco, raw material-forest trees for the paper industry, timber processing industry, milk and salt production...
