Vietnam's top fruit and vegetable export markets

In 2020 and January 2021, China, the United States, Thailand, and South Korea ... are major markets for Vietnam's fruit and vegetable imports, despite the COVID-19 epidemic.

4 MULTIPLE MARKETING IN 2021

According to the Department of Agro-Processing and Market Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development-Agriculture and Rural Development), Vietnam's fruit and vegetable export value in January is estimated at 260 million USD. Vietnam's largest markets are still China, the United States, Thailand, Korea ... In which, exports to China, the United States, Thailand, and Korea are promising in 2021 despite the COVID- 19 complicated developments.

“China ranks first in the fruit and vegetable import market of Vietnam in 2020 with 56.3% market share. Followed by the US market with 168.8 million USD (accounting for 5.2%, up 12.5%); Thailand gained 157.2 million USD (accounting for 4.8%, increasing by 109.7%); South Korea reached 143 million USD (accounting for 4.4%, up 8.5%); Japan reached 127.7 million USD (accounting for 3.9%, up 4.3%) ”- Dr. Nguyen Quoc Toan, Director of Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development, said.

For more information about Vietnam's fruit and vegetable export markets, Dr. Nguyen Quoc Toan said that in 2020, the market with the strongest increase in fruit and vegetable export value is Cambodia (up 142%). In contrast, the market with the biggest drop in export value was Laos (down 45.5%).

“The unpredictable development of COVID-19 has significantly affected the export of fruits and vegetables in Vietnam, especially the difficulty of changing tastes and tightened import procedures due to epidemics. Enterprises need to strengthen supervision of the quality of goods, avoid violating the regulations of other countries on standards, quarantine testing, and food safety so that the customs clearance process will not be affected ”- Mr. Nguyen Quoc Toan emphasized.

IMPROVING QUALITY IN THE DOMESTIC MARKET
Following the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on agricultural restructuring, the farming sector has been focusing on building safe growing areas, applying high technology to improve the quality of production. products, not only for export but also for the purchasing power of 97 million domestic consumers.

Specialty fruits such as Breast milk, longan, mangosteen, durian, rambutan, grapefruit, dragon fruit, and mango, avocado booth ... currently have very large production, abundant supply, so the price at markets and supermarkets are very "popular. There is even a time when the price of red flesh dragon fruit, butter booth ... the selling price is only 6,000 - 8,000 VND / kg.

According to the Department of Agro-Processing and Market Development, in the domestic market, in January 2121, dragon fruit in Binh Thuan province was in the period of fruit creation and maintenance in order to serve the Tet holiday market. However, for many months now, the consumption of dragon fruits in Binh Thuan has been facing difficulties, the selling price is from 5,000-8,000 VND / kg because the supply is quite large.

Due to off-season dragon fruit production, high cost of lampshade and fertilizer, farmers are facing difficulties with this price.

However, in the opposite direction, some kinds of fruit trees give good price, such as pineapple. In Long An province, the price of pineapple increased due to the reduced supply while the demand was still large. Currently, type 1 pineapple costs about 10,000 VND / kg, nearly double the same period in 2020.

Source: congthuong.vn/