Vegetable and fruit exports hit US$600 million

Vietnam is expected to earn US$600 million from vegetable and fruit exports and become the fifth largest exporter in Asia.

The figure was released at an international conference on Vietnamese tropical vegetables and fruit in Ho Chi Minh City on December 14.

The Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Vegetable and Fruit Association (VVFA) Huynh Quang Dau, said by the end of October the country’s vegetable and fruit export earnings reached US$515 million, an increase of 40.6 percent from a year earlier and much higher than the yearly target for US$470 million.

A large volume of dragon fruit, star apple, mangosteen, longan, and litchi was shipped to many Asian and European countries.

Vegetable and fruit exports to Japan alone hit more than US$51.2 million, up 21 percent compared to the same period last year.

Doan Xuan Hoa, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said there will be a growing demand for agricultural products from now into next year as the adverse weather in many countries, including the US, Germany and Pakistan, has caused a shortfall in supply.

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