Many fruit farmers in the Mekong Delta have suffered losses this year due to crop failure caused by drought and saltwater intrusion and lower demand for fruits.
Viet Nam shipped its first boxes of rambutan to New Zealand on October 3 after seven years of negotiation on exporting this fruit to the market, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Viet Nam has exported its fruit to high-standard markets in recent years, such as the US, the European Union and Japan, but increasing export volume is no easy task.
Viet Nam’s fruit and vegetable exports reached US$1.32 billion in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 30 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Rambutan is the third Vietnamese fruit after mango and dragon fruit to be exported to New Zealand. Hoang Trung, Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development''s Plant Protection Department (PPD), talks to Viet Nam News reporter To Nhu...
Farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai are growing Thai rambutan
because of its high profit, according to the Dong Nai Agriculture and
Rural Development Department.
The government has approved a plan to help Vietnamese businesses
directly participate in foreign distribution networks through 2020 to
help Vietnamese goods penetrate international markets, a senior
government official said.