Hanoi (VNA) – Earningsfrom vegetable and fruit exports to China, Vietnam’s largest market, stood at144.2 million USD in July, a year-on-year drop of 44.2 percent, statistics ofthe General Department of Vietnam Customs showed.
The decrease in the Chinese marketwas the most significant among Vietnam’s 10 major export markets in the period.
Vietnam raked in 247.3 million USDfrom exports of vegetable and fruits in July, bringing the figure in the firstseven months to 2.3 billion USD, a mild drop of 1.8 percent compared to thesame period last year.
The Vietnam Association of Vegetablespredicted the country’s exports of vegetable and fruits will continue to face difficultiesin the rest of 2019 as China has rolled out stricter import standards.
To date, nine Vietnamese fruits canbe officially imported into the Chinese market, namely dragon fruit, watermelon,litchee, longan, banana, mango, jackfruit, rambutan and mangosteen.-VNA
Veggie, fruit exports rise 3.9 percent in H1
Vietnam’s vegetable and fruit export value hit 2.06 billion USD in the first six months of 2019, up 3.9 percent year-on-year, said the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.