VOV.VN - India, a South Asian nation with a population of more than 1.36 billion, is offering Vietnam a great chance to export its dragon fruit to this market as the fruit is the favourite with Indians, according to experts.
VOV.VN - A number of business representatives from India and Pakistan will participate in a teleconference on August 5 with Vietnamese officials from various localities to promote dragon fruit consumption in the Indian and Pakistani markets.
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Trade Office in Australia is launching Vietnamese Dragon Fruit Weeks in several major Australian cities from July 21 to August 10 to further popularize the Vietnamese tropical fruit in the lucrative market.
VOV.VN - Vietnamese export of fruit and vegetables to the United States increased by 16.6% on-year to US$57.4 million during the four months of the year, according to details provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnam is expected to rake in US$4 billion from fruit and vegetables exports this year if the H1 pace is maintained in the second half of this year.
VOV.VN - Despite facing an adverse range of impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, local fruit exports to the Chinese market witnessed robust growth during the first half of the year with more than 2.5 million tonnes, equivalent to 77% of the entirety of last year.
More than 3,600 tonnes of fresh lychees from the northern provinces of Hai Duong, Bac Giang and Vinh Phuc were exported to China via Lao Cai province’s Kim Thanh II international border gate from May 8 to 24.
Some 190 tonnes of dragon fruits were shipped to China through Kim Thanh II International Border Gate in the northern province of Lao Cai on February 12, the first day of the lunar New Year.
Vietnam earned US$3.26 billion from exporting fruit and vegetables in 2020, a year-on-year decline of 13%, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported.
In the first 11 months of this year dragon fruit exports fell by 10% because of the COVID-19 pandemic but still dominated Vietnamese fruit exports with shipments of more than US$1 billion.