More than 1,000 agricultural and specialty products from over 20 provinces and cities across the country are being exhibited at Gigamall in HCMC’s Thu Duc city as part of the Regional Agricultural and Specialty Product Festival.
Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien on March 31 held talks with Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The agro-forestry-fishery export turnover in 2022 posted a new record, hitting over US$53.2 billion in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has had a positive impact on Vietnamese enterprises and exports in the last two years since it came into force. However, the market share of Vietnamese products in Europe is still rather modest.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), on December 13, in Can Tho City, coordinated with the People's Committee of Can Tho City to organize a conference on "Credit solutions to promote the purchase, consumption, and export of key agricultural products in the Mekong Delta".
Agro-forestry-fishery exports stood at about US$49.04 billion in the first 11 months of 2022, higher than last year’s record of US$48.6 billion, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said.
Export turnover of goods in the first ten months of the year was estimated at US$312.82 billion, up 15.9 percent over the same period last year. This is a positive signal, however, economic experts warned of the risk of a decline in export turnover in the near future, because of rising inflation in many countries that are tightening monetary policy.
Agricultural products in Vietnam’s Central Highlands will be exported to foreign countries after they are granted a planting area code helping local farmers and businesses increase profits. Local administrations in provinces in the Central Highlands region are creating conditions to accelerate the granting of planting area codes toward sustainable agricultural production.
Vietnam has great potential to increase fruit exports to the US in the future, said Hoang Trung, director of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Can Tho City held a meeting to take opinions on a construction project on a center for linking the production, processing, and consumption of agricultural products in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.
Oxfam and the Vietnam Chamber of Trade and Industry (VCCI), on the morning of May 6 in Hanoi, jointly organized a seminar to kick off the project of strengthening export capacity for small and medium-sized enterprises in the sector of Vietnamese spices and vegetables.
After a long time, the selling prices of dragon fruit had dropped dramatically, not enough for farmers to cover production costs, causing farmers in the Mekong Delta to suffer heavy losses, the prices of dragon fruit have rebounded in the past few days, but farmers do not have many dragon fruits left to sell.
On April 18, Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board launched Action Month for Food Safety in 2022 with the theme ‘Continuing to improve the roles and responsibilities of producers, traders, and consumers in consuming agricultural products’.
Despite suffering the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict which affects international trade, import and export activities of Ho Chi Minh city still achieved impressive growth in the first quarter of this year.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on March 29 held a conference on deploying a pilot project to build areas of agricultural and forestry raw materials meeting standards for domestic consumption and export in the 2022-2025 period.
Recently, the export of dragon fruits of Binh Thuan Province through the Chinese market encountered many difficulties because the Northern border gates constantly closed and stopped customs clearance. Currently, dragon fruits are difficult to sell, although the selling price is extremely low, only from VND500-VND2,000 per kg.
The People's Committee of Lang Son Province, on February 12, said that as container trucks carrying export goods were being congested at border gates in the province, the provincial Department of Industry and Trade had announced that from February 16 to the end of February 25, the province would temporarily stop receiving vehicles carrying fresh fruit products to the provincial road border gates to export to China to minimize losses for people and enterprises.
