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Fruit, vegetable exports valued at 3.3 billion USD

Vietnam earned some 3.3 billion USD from vegetable and fruit exports during January-October, up 15.5 percent from the same time last year, the Agro Processing Market Development Authority (AgroTrade) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said.
Fruit, vegetable exports valued at 3.3 billion USD ảnh 1Vietnam earned some 3.3 billion USD from vegetable and fruit exports during January-October. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam earned some 3.3 billion USD from vegetable and fruitexports during January-October, up 15.5 percent from the same time last year,the Agro Processing Market Development Authority (AgroTrade) under the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development has said.

Of the total shipments, 90.3 percent were raw products while the processed onesonly accounted for 9.7 percent.

China remained the largest market of Vietnamese fruits and vegetables. Vietnamshipped nearly 2.2 billion USD worth of the products to the neighbouringcountry in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year surge of 10.4percent.

Strong growth was seen in the exports to Thailand (35 percent), Australia (31.6percent), the US (30 percent), and the Republic of Korea (24.4 percent).

In October, Vietnam splashed out 134 million USD on purchasing foreign fruitsand vegetables, raising the total import value of these products in theten-month period to 1.43 billion USD, rising 13.1 percent against the sameperiod last year.

The AgroTrade said that many fruit and vegieprocessing plants will be put into operation in the last months of 2018,helping Vietnam improve its production capacity in order to realise its setgoal of 4 billion USD in export revenue this year.-VNA

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