18 Jun 2026

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City eyes poultry and egg commodity exchange

The objective is to enhance the efficiency of state management over the quality of products and goods circulating in the market.

Valerie Nguyen

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Tiếng Việt

Following a pilot program for a pork trading floor, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is exploring expanding the commodity exchange to include poultry meat and eggs to enhance transparency, standardize the supply chain, and improve food quality management.

According to the 2026-2030 plan for implementing and managing the traceability system for pork, poultry meat, and eggs recently issued by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, the city will further promote the application of information technology in traceability, ensuring integration with the National Traceability Portal.

The objective is to establish a synchronized, open, and transparent traceability database, thereby improving state management over the quality of products and goods circulating in the market.

Expanding the trading floor from pork to poultry and eggs

A notable highlight of the plan is the directive for the Department of Industry and Trade to urgently finalize the pilot implementation of the pork trading floor within the city.

Based on the pilot’s outcomes, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has tasked the Department of Industry and Trade with researching the inclusion of poultry meat and eggs into the exchange system.

This expansion is expected to standardize the supply chain, control product quality, and ensure transparent origin information from production to consumption.

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Integrating traceable products into institutional kitchens

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has also directed the Department of Industry and Trade to collaborate with the Department of Food Safety to look into connection solutions that bring pork, poultry meat, and eggs meeting traceability requirements into institutional kitchens at hospitals, schools, industrial parks, and export processing zones.

Participating products must meet the criteria of the ‘Responsible Green Tick’ Goods Quality Control Cooperation Program, thereby increasing market access for producers and businesses that strictly adhere to quality and food safety regulations.

Tightening origin control and penalizing violations

Alongside promoting traceability, the city demands intensified unannounced inspections at warehouses and transit points for pork, poultry meat, and eggs.

Commercial fraud, counterfeiting traceability stamps, using fake QR codes, or trading products lacking traceability information will be strictly penalized in accordance with regulations.

The Department of Industry and Trade is assigned to direct supermarket chains, convenience stores, and the management boards of the Binh Dien and Hoc Mon wholesale markets to only accept products with complete and technologically verifiable origin information.

Additionally, the city will boost trade promotion and marketing for safe, reputable branded meat and egg products to effectively connect production with consumption, while encouraging enterprises and cooperatives to participate in the traceability system.

Through these synchronized measures, Ho Chi Minh City expects to enhance the transparency of the food market, bolster consumer confidence, and build a safe and sustainable agricultural supply chain.

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