During the first quareter of this year, some major farm produce, including coffee, tea and rubber, experienced export growths against the same period last year.
The global coffee market is estimated at some 500 billion USD per year. However, Vietnam’s coffee exports only reached 3.5 billion last year, a very small proportion of the market
China is current the biggest market for Vietnamese agricultural products, but its demand for fruits and vegetables is still growing, offering a chance for Vietnamese firms to boost even stronger shipments to this country.
Agro-forestry-fishery exports are estimated to have yielded 8.8 billion USD in the year’s first quarter, a year-on-year fall of 2.9 percent, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said.
Moc Chau district, Son La province, boasts prominent advantages in its soil and climate. The district has focused on producing high quality agro-products for exports in recent years.
Fruit and vegetable export turnover experienced a year on year fall of 9.3 percent to 879 million USD in the first quarter of the year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Agro Processing and Market Development Authority.