Seven-month fruit - vegetable export value beats 2022's target
VOV.VN - Vietnam earned US$3.25 billion from the export of fruit and vegetables during the first seven months of this year, representing a year-on-year rise of 68.8% and beating last year's US$3.16 billion export earnings, reported Vietnam Fruit and Vegetables Association (VinaFruit).
According to VinaFruit, July alone saw Vietnamese fruit and vegetable businesses bag an estimated US$475.5 million from exports, up 90.7% year on year.
Fruit and vegetables make up the commodity group that has recorded the highest export growth among Vietnamese agro-forestry-fishery products since the beginning of the year.
Most notably, fruit and vegetable exports to China in the first half of the year witnessed impressive growth with a turnover of US$1.76 billion, marking an increase of 121.9% year on year and accounting for 65.8% of the country’s share of fruit and vegetable exports.
Meanwhile, Vietnam also spent US$1.07 billion on importing fruit and vegetables in July, making the sector rack up a trade surplus of more than US$2.18 billion in seven months.
