Workers of a vegetable and fruit company in central Binh Thuan Province process fruits for export. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Hue Viet Nam can fully meet Qatar’s demand for tropical fruits, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong. During a meeting with Belgian Rent-A-Port N.V. held last week, Cuong said Viet Nam had 1.8 million hectares of cultivation area for fruits and vegetables with an annual output of 20 million tonnes, adding that the figure would double in the future if demand increases. In 2017, vegetable and fruit export revenue hit US$3.6 billion, up by 50 per cent over the previous year. In the future, Viet Nam will construct and put into operation 10 more fruit and vegetable processing factories across the country, he was quoted by MARD’s e-portal mard.gov.vn. Rent-A-Port is the “port-related” investment and management arm of the Belgian Holding Ackermans & van Haaren, which was founded in 1885 and is one of the largest stock-listed holding companies of Belgium, with assets of 2.7 billion euro ($3.2 billion). Rent-A-Port operates as an engineering and investment company that analyses, designs, constructs, develops, and manages port, logistics, marine infrastructure, and industrial zones worldwide. The company is helping Viet Nam and India promote fruit and vegetable exports to Middle East countries, starting with Qatar. Therefore, except from the current key exported fruits, Cuong asked Rent-A-Port to learn more about other types, such as bananas, grapefruit, dragon fruit and mango, as well as durian and coconut to add… [Read full story]
Besides, the ministry also predicts that Viet Nam will have many favorable conditions in rice exporting in 2007 and the next years.Although the temporary order halting rice export issued by the government is still in effect, Viet Nam has much advantage of rice exporting. Viet Nam won the bid to supply 5,000 tons of rice to Japan and the Philippines plans to import 500,000 tons of 25% broken rice from Viet Nam, Thailand and China in 2007.... [read more]
Viet Nam is set to export 4 to 4.5 million tons of rice in 2007, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in an instruction to ministry officials and industry agencies regarding the management of rice exports this year. The PM has asked the Ministry of Trade and the panel of rice export management to directly manage rice export volumes in each quarter by conducting transactions, overseeing the signing of contracts and administering deliveries to bigger client states like the Philippines, Indonesia, Cuba, Malaysia and Japan.He added that exporters should adjust rice prices in compliance with those set by the Viet Nam Food Association…... [read more]
Fresh dragon fruit is one of Viet Nam’s priority agricultural commodities for the Australian market. — Photo hoangha.com
Australia last week announced that it would permit the import of Vietnamese dragon fruit, making Viet Nam the first country to get licence to export fresh dragon fruit there.
Dragon fruit is one of Viet Nam’s key export fruits, and saw export sales worth US$895.7 million in 2016, accounting for 50.3 per cent of the country’s total fresh fruit exports and 36.1 per cent of Viet Nam’s total fruit and vegetables exports.
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HA NOI (Biz Hub) — Viet Nam plans to cease the import of 38 kinds of fruits from Australia from 2015, the agriculture and rural development ministry's plant protection department announced on December 17.The department's decision follows the fruit fly epidemic that has affected fruit production in Australia.Head of the department Nguyen Xuan Hong told the Vietnam Plus news website that though fruit flies do not cause serious harm to human health, the fruits could possibly spread the outbreak. Thus, it became necessary to suspend the import of Australian fruits to protect the country from the epidemic.Hong added that customs…... [read more]
Viet Nam will export 1 billion branches of flowers by 2010 under a programme to develop flower production set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Of the flowers, 85 percent will be roses, chrysanthemums, and orchids. Under the programme, the country's acreage of flower growing will be raised to 8,000 ha, capable of turning out 4.5 billion branches. Revenues from exporting flowers will reach 60 million USD. Concentrated flower growing areas will be Ha Noi, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City, and the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Lao Cai, Lam Dong, Vinh Phuc, Thai Binh and Tien…... [read more]
