According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the total export-import turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery in the first 9 months of 2019 was estimated at 53.2 billion USD; in which, export is about 30.02 billion USD, up by 2.7% YoY; Import turnover is estimated at 23.16 billion USD, down by 0.7%.
Thus, the surplus of agriculture, forestry and fishery products reached 6.86 billion USD, 957 million USD higher than the same period last year.
Total import-export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery in 9 months of 2019 was estimated at 53.2 billion USD. Photo: Vu Sinh / VNA
Export growth in 9 months was mainly achieved by increasing the export value of main forest products to 7.93 billion USD, up 18%; Livestock export is estimated at US $ 0.53 billion, up 8.6%.
The main agricultural product group still dropped sharply with 7.2%, reaching 13.9 billion USD. Seafood is also a commodity group whose export turnover did not reach as expected. Up to now, seafood export is about 6.23 billion USD, down by 2%.
There are currently 6 groups / products with export value of over US $ 2 billion including: wood and wood products, coffee, rice, cashew nuts, vegetables, shrimp.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the group of agricultural and aquatic products for export decreased due to the export prices of many commodities such as coffee, rice, cashew nuts, cassava and cassava products, shrimp, pangasius fell deeply. compared to the same period in 2018. In addition, exports to some major and important markets also decreased, especially as the Chinese market was estimated to decrease by 8%, the EU was estimated to decrease by 6.5%.
In the coming time, global trade is expected to continue to decline, export prices of some key agricultural products are still in a downward trend.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the whole sector focused on implementing measures to promote trade promotion activities, remove trade barriers, expand export markets and encourage domestic consumption. .
Specialized units research, assess the market overview of some essential commodities such as rice, sugar, seafood, pork and propose solutions to ensure the balance between supply and demand, stabilize the price market. both.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall coordinate and support localities in introducing, promoting, consuming, and promoting trade of local specialty agricultural products. Organize conferences and forums to discuss solutions in production, processing, and promote domestic consumption and export.
The functional units focused on solving difficulties for rice, pork, milk and fruit products with the Chinese market; remove technical barriers, solve problems related to seafood products, especially for the EU withdrawal of the “yellow card” of Vietnamese seafood products, the US Fisheries Import Monitoring Program; fruits, pepper … with EU market; aquatic products, vegetables, coffee for the Japanese market; seafood, wood and wood products, processed chicken, salted poultry eggs with Korea. At the same time, opening new markets for many export products, such as mangoes to the US, UK, Australia …
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development actively supports businesses in actively deploying and effectively exploiting the opportunities provided by free trade agreements and strengthening market development activities.
The Market Steering Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also cooperates with associations, industries and enterprises to closely monitor the situation of supply and demand of food and food markets, the situation of import and export; strengthen tight control of smuggling in the domestic market.
Bich Hong
Source: Vietnam + / TTXVN
