The southernmost province of Ca Mau wants to increase agricultural and fishery exports to Singapore and strengthen cooperation in several sectors, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Nguyen Ho Hai has told Singaporean embassy officials.

VOV.VN - The export of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products has created a breakthrough this year, generating more than US$62 billion, up 18% year on year, and promising continued growth in the coming year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Vietnam has recorded US$11.8 billion in agro-forestry-fisheries trade surplus over the first eight months of 2024, surging 68.4% year on year, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Statistics in the first half of this year show that for the first time, Vietnam’s fishery products maintained its position as the fifth largest partner in Singapore for the second consecutive quarter.

VOV.VN - Vietnam earned US$29.2 billion from agro-forestry-fishery exports in the first half of this year, marking a rise of 19% year on year, and it is now on course to meet the export target set for 2024.

Vietnam shipped an estimated US$3.6 billion worth of fishery products abroad during January-May, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery exports to the Republic of Korea (RoK) have surged thanks to the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA), topping US$2 billion annually during 2016 - 2023, and the Northeast Asian country is forecast to remain an attractive market in the coming time.

China, the US and Japan were the three largest importers of Vietnam’s fishery products in the first quarter of this year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

With trade promotion activities intensified, the agro-forestry-fishery sector is able to earn US$54-55 billion in export revenue this year as assigned by the Prime Minister, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.

Vietnam’s fisheries exports generated nearly US$2 billion in revenue from January – March, up 8% year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).