Thailand sees strong rise in exports of vegetable, fruits to China

Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce has reported that the country’s exports of fruits and vegetable to China surged 31 percent in the January-May period to 1.2 billion USD.
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Bangkok (VNA)
– Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce hasreported that the country’s exports of fruits and vegetable to China surged 31percent in the January-May period to 1.2 billion USD.

Export revenue of fruit rose 123 percent to 838.61 millionUSD. Of the figure, earnings from durian accounted for 48.5 percent, followedby longan, mangosteen and coconut.

However, export revenue of vegetable in the period was only361 million USD, a drop of 33 percent year on year. Cassava was the major currencyearner of the country which made up 96 percent of the total exports of farm produceto China, followed by beans and dried vegetable.

Speaking to the local media, Auramon Supthaweethum, head ofthe Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce’s Department of Trade Negotiations, saidthat the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) helped facilitate exports ofvegetable and fruits.

She held that the deal is an important tool for Thailand,creating advantages for farmers and exporters.

The 1.4-billion-strong market of China has high consumptionpower, she said, adding that trade surplus of Thailand in the market rose to854.75 million USD in the January-May 2019 period from only more than 100 millionUSD before the ACFTA took effect in 2003.

Thailand’s vegetable and fruit exports to China in 2018reached about 1.93 billion USD, of which over 1 billion USD was from fruits and909.6 million USD from vegetable.-VNA
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