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Cabbages are packed after being harvested at a farm. (Illustrative photo: VNA)   HCM City (VNA) - Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports are expected to top 4.5 billion USD by 2020, with fruits accounting for 3.6 billion USD, according to the Crop Production Department. Vietnam’s varied geographic and climatic conditions have allowed it to diversify its fruit and vegetable production, giving it great export potential, Nguyen Hong Son, director of the department, told a recent seminar on the potential and development orientation of horticulture and floriculture in Vietnam. The fruit-tree-growing area, productivity and output have gone up significantly in the past 15 years. Banana is grown on the largest area followed by mango, longan, litchi, grapefruit, dragon fruit, pineapple, durian, lemon, rambutan, jackfruit, custard apple, tangerine, and guava. According to Son, 80 percent of the output is sold in the domestic market as fresh fruits mainly through traditional … [Read more...] about Vietnam targets 4.5 billion USD from farm produce exports by 2020

The export of farm, forestry and fishery products in March reached 3.1 billion USD, bringing the total export value of the items in the first quarter of this year to 8.7 billion USD, a rise of 9.6 percent from the same quarter in 2017 (Illustrative photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The export of farm, forestry and fishery products in March reached 3.1 billion USD, bringing the total export value of the items in the first quarter of this year to 8.7 billion USD, a rise of 9.6 percent from the same quarter in 2017, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Q1 figure included 4.6 billion USD coming from farm produce (up by 9 percent year on year), 1.7 billion USD from aquatic products (up 11.5 percent), and nearly 2 billion USD from forestry items (up 6.6 percent). Up to 524,000 tonnes of rice were shipped abroad for 261 million USD in March, raising  the total rice export volume in January-March to 1.36 million tonnes for 669 million USD, … [Read more...] about Agro-forestry-fishery export hits 8.7 billion USD in Q1