Agriculture

Shifting to clean production is the right way for Vietnamese fruits to compete with the rising inflow of imports, both consumers and local fruit growers said.

Vietnam is exporting tea mainly in the form of raw materials. In an effort to increase tea export value, both farmers and businesses in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, the country’s largest tea producer, are seeking to develop brand names for their products.

A workshop on sustainable lobster farming took place in Nha Trang city, the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on April 13, bringing together policymakers, researchers, business representatives and farmers from central provinces of Quang Ngai, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan.

The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade has just issued Plan No. 1511/KH-SCT on organizing a conference on supply-demand connections of agricultural products and solutions for sustainable development in 2018 in the Capital city.

Rambutan will be the third kind of fruit Vietnam exports to New Zealand, following mango in 2011 and dragon fruit in 2014.

“We need to find the products that the market currently demands prior to proceeding with production, not to rush to grow crops and then to dump them away,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc repeatedly emphasized in his dialogue with farmers.

The Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Dak Nong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum have encouraged the growing of high-demand fruits such as durian, avocado, jackfruit, longan and litchi to help farmers raise income.

Vietnam gained US$ 934 million from fruit and vegetable exports in the first quarter of 2018, up 33.4 percent from the same period last year with China, Japan and the United States remaining top importers.

The sectoral GDP growth rate of Vietnam agriculture is set at the minimum of 3%, while the export turnover target is expected to be in range of US$40 - 40.5 billion.

The application of science and technology will be a key solution to help the agricultural sector develop green and high-value products in the time to come, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

Hanoi has recently organized a conference to review the task in the first quarter of 2018 and deploy key missions in the last months of the year.

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has just inaugurated No.1 Hi-Tech Vinamilk dairy farm in the town of Thong Nhat, Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province.

The loans will help improve inclusive and sustainable agricultural value chains, directly benefiting up to 20,000 smallholder farmers in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.

Vietnam has imported fruits and vegetable from Thailand such as longans, mangosteens, durians, tamarinds and others worth US$857 million, up 109% compared to 2016, according to the Ministry of Industry & Trade (MoIT).

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has paid a four-day trip to the European Union and Belgium to promote agricultural cooperation with the two partners and demonstrate Vietnam’s efforts to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Business France Vietnam will support nine French livestock breeding companies at the ILDEX Vietnam international tradeshow in Ho Chi Minh City during March 14th-16th, 2018.

Positive signals in agricultural exports are premise and impetus for the agricultural sector to fulfil preset norms.

In 2018, Vietnam set the target of exporting 6.5 million tons of rice, said Vice Minister of Agricultural and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan to Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam exported 293,960 tonnes of fruits and vegetables worth 620 million USD in the first two months of 2018, a year-on-year rise of 47 percent and 47.6 percent, respectively.

Businesses of Vietnam and France on February 26 gathered in a forum in Paris to exchange know-how and explore cooperation opportunities in organic farming.