Vietnamese bananas put on sale in the RoK (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s exports of fruits andvegetables to major markets like the US, the Republic of Korea (RoK) andThailand have surged despite the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
Exports of those products to Thailand brought home 68million USD, up 233.4 percent; the RoK 67.4 million USD, up 21.8 percent; theUS 62 million USD, up 6.1 percent; Japan 57.7 million USD, up 15.5 percent; andthe Netherlands 34 million USD, up 9 percent.
However, a reduction of 29.1 percent year-on-year in exportsto China in the January-May period has affected the value for the first half,which hit 1.79 billion USD, down 12.2 percent year-on-year, reported theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoIT)’s Agro Processing andMarket Development Authority (AgroTrade).
In the first five months of this year, Vietnam earned 906.1million USD from fruit and vegetable export to China, down 29.1 percent year-on-year.
The AgroTrade said lychees contribute significantly to fruitand vegetable export in the first half of this year.
Apart from the main market of China, local exporters haveshipped lychee to the US and Japan.
The Vina T&T company expects to export 50 tonnes oflychees meeting GlobalGAP standards to the US this year.
Meanwhile, the first batch of Bac Giang lychees arrived inJapan on June 20 morning.
The MoIT’s Export and Import Department said Vietnamesebananas have become available at the Lotte supermarket system in the RoK whiledragon fruits, lychees and rambutans are popular in India.
With the European Union – Vietnam Free Trade Agreementtaking effect on August 1, AgroTrade Director Nguyen Quoc Toan urged the sectorto overcome technical and quality barriers in order to better tapopportunities./.
