Source: Bnews.vn
Fruit and vegetable exports continued to maintain a fairly high growth rate since the beginning of the year with 39%. With China’s strong increase in purchasing again, especially when Vietnam is in the season of many strong fruit exports to this market, it is expected that Vietnamese fruit will continue to make a breakthrough.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the export value of vegetables and fruits in May is estimated at 600 million USD, bringing the total export value of fruits and vegetables in the first 5 months of 2023 to 1.97 billion USD, up 39% over the same period last year. year 2022.
In the first four months of 2023, China ranked first in Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable consumption with 58.7% market share, valued at US$804.6 million, up 30% over the same period in 2022. The market with the strongest increase in fruit and vegetable export value was the Netherlands (up 72.3%).
Dang Phuc Nguyen, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association, assessed that the reason for the strong growth of vegetables and fruits was thanks to China’s increased purchase after the Zero-COVID policy was implemented. This is the first year after 3 years of the pandemic that products such as dragon fruit, durian, mango and jackfruit have been purchased by China.
With the Chinese market, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tung – General Director of Vina T&T Import-Export Company said that despite being competitive with products from Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines, Vietnam’s fruit export turnover still broke through.
While exports to the US and Canada markets declined, China was the market that helped this enterprise’s fruit export activities grow well in the first months of the year. Especially items such as durian, dragon fruit, banana… have a very strong increase. Export prospects in the second half of the year will be brighter when Vietnamese agricultural products are being favored by many countries.
According to the Department of Crop Production (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), in the third and fourth quarter of 2023, it is expected that there will be nearly 7.6 million tons of main fruits to be consumed such as mango, banana, dragon fruit, pineapple. , oranges, lychees, longans, durians, jackfruits, avocados… Mr. Nguyen Nhu Cuong, Director of the Department of Crop Production, recommends that people focus on the type of tree according to the orientation of the local government, helping to focus the growing area. , production with codes, improve quality, improve processing rates and meet the needs of product diversification.
In particular, the consumption demand will be very high and in a short time for the main season lychee, concentrated in the provinces of Bac Giang and Hai Duong; Longan is concentrated the most in 2 provinces of Son La and Hung Yen; Son La is also the area with the largest concentration of mango growing in the North, with the remaining large output in the southern provinces…
Currently, Bac Giang and Hai Duong are preparing to start harvesting lychee in the main season. With an output of over 180,000 tons, Bac Giang determines that in addition to the traditional export market is China, potential markets are the United States, EU, Japan, Korea, Australia, Malaysia; UAE, Singapore, Middle East, Thailand…
Bac Giang province has prepared conditions such as ensuring capital, electricity, styrofoam boxes, rocks, environmental sanitation, preparing warehouses, transport facilities, weighing points, and concentrated lychee purchasing. … so that the consumption of fabric is smooth.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien assessed that Vietnam has expanded many consumption channels, especially e-commerce; expanding export markets, creating conditions for Chinese businessmen to enter Vietnam to consume agricultural products, especially lychee, longan…
Although the consumption time of lychee is short, Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien said that Bac Giang and Hai Duong provinces have a lot of experience, especially in exporting to China. Since China has a Zero COVID policy, trade activities will gradually return to normal, which will speed up the customs clearance of goods. Ministries, sectors and localities with border gates will join hands to remove difficulties in quarantine, transportation and delivery…
In order to meet export requirements, the issue of vegetable and fruit growing area codes is also focused in the localities. The whole country has nearly 6,500 growing areas in 53/63 provinces and cities and 1,600 packing facilities in 33 provinces and cities that are granted export codes. At the same time, there are 25 products granted export codes such as: dragon fruit, longan, litchi, mango, rambutan, custard apple, lemon, grapefruit, mangosteen, watermelon, jackfruit, sweet potato, durian, etc. in markets: China, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, EU…
Durian, a new item officially exported to China from 2022, Vietnam has 293 growing areas and 115 durian packing facilities that have been granted official export codes to this market by China.
The Plant Protection Department said that the unit is working with the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) to agree on the schedule of the next online inspection for about 400 growing areas and 60 durian packing facilities that it has received. sent to.
If China approves more planting area codes, durian packing facilities will be good news for growers and exporters. This is a favorable condition for Vietnamese enterprises to increase the output and export value of durian to China in the remaining months of this year, when the consumption demand from this market is very large, Mr. Nguyen commented.
Mr. Dang Phuc Nguyen also forecast that, with abundant supply, in the second half of the year, fruit and vegetable exports will be very positive if they grasp the Chinese market requirements well in the direction of good manufacturing practice (GAP). It is expected that the total export turnover of vegetables and fruits this year may be over 4 billion USD. Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports will continue to accelerate in the near future.
Currently, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam is leading a delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to work with authorities and the provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan (China) to promote agricultural and fishery trade between the two sides.
With the peak season of fruits such as durian, mango, etc., the clearance situation at the border gates shows signs of overload, exceeding the capacity of the border gate areas, the two sides have proposed together. strengthen research to put the smart border gate system into pilot operation.
In order to promptly solve problems at the border gate, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam suggested Nanning Customs to establish a focal point so that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the Nanning Customs Department can communicate easily with each other, minimizing text exchange.
Besides, Guangxi has borders with 4 provinces of Vietnam with 9 pairs of border gates, but only 6 of them are allowed to import and export vegetables. Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam proposed Nanning Customs to consider and expand the scale of fruit and vegetable import and export to all 9 pairs of border gates, reducing pressure on traditional border gates, avoiding congestion, and reducing costs for the whole country. both sides./.
