The implementation of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which went into force on August 1, 2020, plays a key role in bringing Vietnamese agro-fishery products into the European market, Trade Counselor in Belgium and the EU Tran Ngoc Quan has told the Vietnam News Agency.
The value of Vietnam's agro-forestry-fishery export to the European Union (EU) market reached 2.1 billion USD in the first half of this year, down 16.6% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on July 19 issued a document guiding commercial banks to implement a credit package, worth 15 trillion VND (641 million USD), for businesses in the forestry and fishery sector.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has requested the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and relevant ministries and organisations to consider solutions to solve financial difficulties of enterprises in the fishery sector.
The gross regional domestic product (GRDP) of Da Nang city in the first half of 2023 was estimated to increase by 3.74% year on year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.
The Vietnam-Algeria traditional friendship serves as an important foundation for the promotion of their multifaceted cooperation for the mutual benefits of their peoples, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said.
After more than three years, a project on placing artificial reefs to protect and enrich fishery resources in combination with tourism development off the southernmost province of Ca Mau has recorded initial encouraging results.
Fishery products shipped overseas earned 2.63 billion USD for Vietnam between January and April, down 27.7% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recently paid a working visit to the south-central province of Phu Yen to check on its fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the area.
The Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore has unveiled its intention to beef up Vietnam-Singapore business connection and the volume of Vietnamese exports to the Singaporean market.
Japan has surpassed the US to become the biggest importer of Vietnam’s fishery products, with over 310 million USD in value in the first quarter of 2023, reported the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
Vietnam’s food industry is growing strongly thanks to people’s improved income, increased purchasing power, and the supply of diverse and highly competitive products, an official told a policy dialogue in Hanoi on April 13.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 stressed the need to ease difficulties and remove obstacles, especially in terms of market, institutions, and credit capital, for the production, processing and export of forest and aquatic products.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 chaired a conference where he worked with the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFOREST) and the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) to seek solutions to hurdles facing forestry-fishery production and exports.
Given the decline of many traditional raw export markets, agro businesses have been actively promoting technology transfer and application in production, focusing on deep processing to diversify export markets.
Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien discussed measures to promote economic and trade ties between Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province, while meeting with Secretary of the Yunnan Party Committee Wang Ning in Hanoi.
Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown about 3.32% year on year in the first quarter of 2023, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The agro-forestry-fishery export turnover reached 6.28 billion USD in the first two months of 2023, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
China's reopening as COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted has strongly lifted Vietnamese agricultural and fishery exports to the country, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam.
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