The two-day festival includes direct trade exchanges between Vietnamese businesses and Chinese fruit importers and distributors, a product experience programme and a seminar on the potential for Vietnamese fruit exports.
Đặng Phúc Nguyên, General Secretary of the Việt Nam Fruit and Vegetable Association, spoke with Việt Nam News reporter Mai Linh about export prospects and how Việt Nam can become a fruit and vegetable export powerhouse.
The Viet Nam Fruit Festival hosted by Central Retail Viet Nam and the Tien Giang Province People’s Committee opened at the GO! My Tho shopping mall in the province’s My Tho city on June 15.
The Viet Nam Fruit and OCOP Product Festival 2022 officially opened in Sơn La Province on Saturday, attended by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, to promote One Commune, One Product (OCOP) goods.
Viet Nam achieved a high growth rate of fruit and vegetable exports in the first month of 2022, according to the Viet Nam Fruit and Vegetable Association (Vnfruit).
The US has become Việt Nam’s largest supplier of fruits and vegetables after a 44 per cent increase year-on-year in the first four months of the year to US$102.1 million, according to the Việt Nam Fruit and Vegetable Association.
Fruit and vegetable exports are unlikely to hit the target of US$4-5 billion set for this year, according to the Viet Nam Fruit and Vegetables Association.
Viet Nam’s exports of farm products, fruits and vegetables in particular, have been rising consistently. But they are exported mainly as raw and fresh items, offering low value addition.
Exports of vegetables and fruits for the year up to September 15 shot
up by 46.7 per cent year-on-year to US$724 million, according to the
customs department.