Tropical fruit sees strong global demand
(VOV) - Doors are opening for the country’s fruit exporters, said Director Phan Huy Thong of the National Agricultural Promotion Centre on September 22 at an agricultural forum in Tien Giang.
Since early this year, exporters in the Mekong Delta region have shipped 160,000 metric tons of fruits to the US, Japan, Republic of Korea (RoK) and China, generating revenues estimated at US$1 billion.
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“The demand for fruit coming from tropical countries will account for nearly three-fourths of the global demand of 3.6 million metric tons,” Thong said, which provides an excellent opportunity for Vietnamese fruit to get a toehold in new markets.
Thong cited the issuance of permits allowing for the import of rambutan, dragon fruit and longan into the US and mango and dragon fruit into the RoK, Australia and New Zealand as very promising.