Seminar talks fruit, veg exportsViet Nam’s fruit and vegetable exports are expected to top US$4.5 billion by 2020, with fruits accounting for $3.6 billion, according to the Crop Production Department. Viet Nam’s fruit and vegetable exports are expected to top US$4.5 billion by 2020. Fruit and vegetable exports increased from $151.5 million in 2003 to $1.07 billion in 2013 and $3.52 billion last year, with fruit export accounting for 80 per cent of total export. “A lack of diversity in fruit exports (dragon fruit accounts for 60 per cent of fruit exports) and a reliance on the Chinese market is another problem,” he said. The country’s fruit and vegetable exports accounted for less than 1 per cent of the global trade in them, meaning there was great potential to increase their exports, he said.

Source: VietNamNet News March 16, 2018 01:41 UTC