Canada is now a promising market for Vietnamese goods as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is expected to open up this market for Vietnamese goods, heard a workshop in Hanoi on April 25.
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is expected to boost economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and Canada once it takes effect, according to insiders.
Economic and trade ties between Vietnam and the Czech Republic (CZE) have made remarkable progress in recent years, with the latter becoming a major trade partner of Vietnam in Eastern Europe.
Romania is a market of great potential to Vietnam’s exports like tropical fruits (fresh and canned), seafood (frozen and canned), coffee, pepper, cashew nut and pork, although the European country has a relatively developed agriculture, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte will pay an official visit to Vietnam on April 9 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The agriculture industry posted a year-on-year growth of 2.68 percent in the first quarter of 2019, despite an array of difficulties caused by the African swine fever and unstable export markets, mainly driven by the seafood and forestry sector.
Wild elephants have been upsetting local people in Dinh Quan district, in the southern province of Dong Nai, by destroying their homes and crops, causing serious economic losses.
The MCE-MARD Group of the Netherlands has proposed to grow 5,000 ha of clean cashew trees in the southern province of Binh Phuoc to process the nuts for export, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Huynh Anh Minh on March 6.
The world prices of cashew nut are forecast to recover in the second quarter of this year to levels higher than that in the past two years, according to the Department of Farm Produce Processing and Market Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Although Vietnam is a leading exporter of cashew nut, the country’s export value remains modest as many enterprises are still dependent on imported materials.
Unseasonal rains and the bitter cold spell in recent days may result in an outbreak of disease for cashew nut plants in Binh Phuoc province, which is dubbed Vietnam’s cashew capital.
Vietnam exported 3.52 billion USD worth of cashew nuts in 2018, surpassing India and Brazil to rank first in the world in cashew processing and export.
Vietnam sustained its position as the world’s leading cashew processor and exporter in 2018, yet the country still suffered from certain losses, so the sector must strive to regain what it lost in 2018 and improve its export value in 2019, according to insiders.
Vietnam’s cashew industry would need to restructure production and processing in order to ensure enough raw materials for sustainable development, according to experts.
Visitors to the seventh Hong Kong Food Carnival, which is underway in Kwai Tsing district, Hong Kong (China), have shown interest in Vietnamese food.
Visitors to the seventh Hong Kong Food Carnival, which is underway in Kwai Tsing district, Hong Kong (China), have shown interest in Vietnamese food.
Hanoi Trade Corporation (Hapro) has signed contracts for exporting agricultural products worth about 2 million USD at the world’s largest food innovation exhibition SIAL Paris.
Price stability is needed to ensure sustained growth of the cashew nut market and benefits for stakeholders in the cashew value chain, participants said at the 10th International Conference on Cashew in northeastern Quang Ninh province at the weekend.
