Vietnam mango exports triple in 2021

Vietnam exported more than 600,000 tonnes of mangoes worth 310 million USD to 53 countries and territories last year, up by almost half from 2020.
Vietnam mango exports triple in 2021 ảnh 1Farmers in Dong Thap province classify mangoes for export. (Photo: vnexpress.net)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam exported more than 600,000 tonnes ofmangoes worth 310 million USD to 53 countries and territories last year, up byalmost half from 2020.

They went to Russia, the US, the Republic of Korea, the EU, Australia, andChina among others, with shipments to difficult markets like Japan tripling to640 tonnes.

According to Nguyen Dinh Tung, chairman of Vina T&T Group, which has beenexporting mangoes since 2019, his company’s preservation technologies keep thefruit for around a month.

The free trade agreements Vietnam has signed is helping it enter many newmarkets.

Mango can be grown throughout the year without much change in quality, whichhelps his company easily get export orders.

Vietnam has around 87,000 hectares under mango, with the Mekong Deltaaccounting for nearly half.

Dong Thap province in the delta has identified the fruit as a key crop in itsagricultural restructuring plan.

The largest mango producer in the delta uses advanced farming techniques andprocesses fresh mangoes for both domestic consumption and export.

Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment’s Plant Protection Department, said Japanese consumers were fond ofDong Thap mangoes.

According to Pham Thien Nghia, chairman of the People's Committee, his provincehad more than 12,000ha under mango, mostly in Cao Lanh district and Cao Lanh city.

The Hoa Loc variety accounts for 70 percent of its output and Cat Chu for 20 percent,two speciality varieties that are in great demand.

Dong Thap plans to slightly increase its area under various fruits by 2025 witha focus on environment-friendly farming methods and developing value chains forthem.

It also plans to enhance origin tracing for fruits and tourism involvingorchards.

It hopes to have 928ha of fruits grown to Vietnamese good agriculturalpractices (VietGAP) standards and 53ha to GlobalGAP standards.

Besides mango, longan and citrus fruits are the key produce here and they aregrown in large, concentrated farming areas.

Under the restructuring plan, many farmers with low-yield rice fields haveswitched to fruits and adopted VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards and advancedtechniques to produce quality fruits for export.

Vietnam plans to expand the total area under mango by 2030 and increase exportsto 650 million USD to take advantage of growing global demand./.
VNA

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