Agriculture

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.

The new office of USDA launched in Hanoi this February would pave the way to expand the US’ $2.5 billion-dollar agricultural export market in Vietnam.

Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO) inaugurated its agricultural machinery factory at Chu Lai Open Economic Zone in Quang Nam province on February 21.

The Office of Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued Official Letter No. 910, requesting city’s relevant agencies and sectors to guide how to improve human resources of agricultural cooperatives.

Vietnam is striving to accelerate agricultural restructuring towards large-scale and high-tech production in a move to have the sector contributing a bigger amount to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Rice exports in the first quarter are optimistic thanks to rising demand amidst limited supply sources.

Vietnam will sell state stake in the Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) through an initial public offering (IPO) on March 14.

The Mekong Delta province of Vietnam has revamped its mango farming towards lower price, higher quality and value, GAP standards, and market-led production.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development estimated that rice exports in the first month of the year surged by 56.5% to 524,000 tons.

Vietnam’s agricultural and fisheries products have contributed significantly to the country’s high value export in 2017.

More domestic agricultural producers have invested significantly in building and protecting their brands in the past few years, seeing it an effective measure to boost their exports.

In 2017, Vietnam’s cashew export reached 353,000 tons worth US$3.52 billion, according to statistics from Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas).

Vietnam ranked fifth in the list of Top 10 largest rice producing countries in the world in 2017, according to The Daily Record.

Growth rate of the agriculture sector this year was planned at least 3 percent, with export turnover contributing some US$40 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.