This figure will surpass the export revenue of rice for the first time. The fruits w88 đăng nhập vegetables exports of Vietnam have grown significantly in recent years, from exporting 235 million USD to 36 markets in 2005 to exporting 1.8 billion USD to 60 markets in 2015. Specially, the export value in 2015 reached a record high 1.8 billion USD, 28.57 per cent higher than in 2014, making it one of the top five farming export products in Vietnam, alongside rice, coffee, cashew nuts w88 đăng nhập rubber.
As of July this year, Vietnam's total fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable exports had hit 1.4 billion USD, representing a jump of 32 percent year-on-year w88 đăng nhập leaving other key agricultural product exports far behind. This was mainly due to higher demand in China’s market, said the Vietnam Fruit w88 đăng nhập Vegetables Association. According to the General Department of Customs, China was the largest export market for Vietnam’s fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetables, accounting for 70 percent of the national export volume of these products in the first half of the year.
In recent years, Vietnam’s exporters have promoted vegetable w88 đăng nhập fruit exports to both traditional w88 đăng nhập new markets, including markets with strict rules, such as the US, the European Union (EU), Japan, the Republic of Korea, Canada, Australia w88 đăng nhập New Zealand. These efforts have brought positive signals including the acceptance of several choosy markets such as the US, Japan w88 đăng nhập EU for various fruits like longan, lychee, mango, dragon fruit, green grapefruit.
Vietnam is now focusing on the EU, Canada, ASEAN, Eastern Europe, the Middle East w88 đăng nhập South America. It will reduce the dependency of Vietnam’s fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetables exports on China w88 đăng nhập also lead Vietnam’s products to higher export value markets. The agricultural sector is speeding up negotiations with countries aiming to boost export of key fresh fruits, including dragon fruit, rambutan, longan, litchi, mango w88 đăng nhập pomelo. Many other demanding markets will continue to open their doors to Vietnam’s fruits w88 đăng nhập vegetables this year.
According to Vietnam Fruit w88 đăng nhập Vegetables Association, consumers in countries like the US w88 đăng nhập Australia are developing a taste for Vietnamese fruit.
Besides the diversifying fruit export market efforts, technology plays a key role in the increase of Vietnamese fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetables exports. Vietnamese fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable producers have applied new technology including heat w88 đăng nhập radiation treatment to cultivate their crops, allowing them to meet the higher requirements of more demanding markets.
Vietnamese farmers have applied modern science w88 đăng nhập technology to produce fruit products, increase output, improve quality w88 đăng nhập establish regions specialising in fruit production.
Fruit farmers in the Mekong Delta region are now producing fruit products using good agricultural practices (GAP) to meet export market requirements, the MARD said.
Many production models have been implemented w88 đăng nhập certified for rambutan w88 đăng nhập green-skin pomelo in Ben Tre Province, Nam Roi pomelo in Vinh Long Province, Vinh Kim star-apple, Hoa Loc mango w88 đăng nhập pineapple in Tien Giang Province w88 đăng nhập mango in Dong Thap Province with VietGAP w88 đăng nhập GlobalGAP certification.
However, Vietnam’s fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetables products still face many technical barriers in export markets. In the period of deeply international integration, especially once the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement comes into effect, tariff duties will be one the decline w88 đăng nhập technical barriers like quarantine w88 đăng nhập food hygiene would be on the rise.
Vietnamese fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable exports are facing the toughest challenge on plant quarantine. It takes at least one year, 3-4 years on average, or even ten years to get permissions on fruit import.
Each country owns different climate conditions w88 đăng nhập has dissimilar plant mechanisms so a generalized plant quarantine protocol is not possible. Countries set different technical barriers with a view to protecting their domestic cultivation.
The quality w88 đăng nhập safety of fresh fruit remain challenges for vegetable w88 đăng nhập fruit exporting, especially in strict markets such as the US, Japan, Australia w88 đăng nhập New Zealand. Production of vegetable w88 đăng nhập fruit products for export must meet VietGAP w88 đăng nhập Global GAP standards.
Quality control is vital to increase fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable exports, Mr. Hoang Trung, head of Plant Protection Department under MARD. Vegetable w88 đăng nhập fruit producers should also follow import regulations closely to create favourable conditions for local vegetable w88 đăng nhập fruit products to enter export markets.
The process to pave the way for Vietnam’s fresh fruits to reach the foreign markets takes at least two years. Besides fruits, Vietnam can look to expand its export of frozen, dried or processed fruit. The most important issue to be addressed in order to sell more Vietnamese fruit to the foreign markets is ensuring food safety w88 đăng nhập hygiene throughout all steps from growing, harvesting to processing
Vietnam’s fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable exports are expected to maintain their momentum in the next few years due to higher demand, according to a report released in May, 2016 by Zion Research, a global agricultural market research company. The world’s fruit w88 đăng nhập vegetable market reached 203.3 billion USD in 2014 w88 đăng nhập is expected to hit 320 billion USD in 2020, said the report.
