The recent signing of a protocol regarding the export of Vietnamese watermelon to China via official channels will help deter trade risks, boost the standard of the farm produce, and ease congestion at border gates
The Viet Nam Flour Corporation has d new food products made from wheat flour and farm produce such as dragon fruit and watermelon amid a reduction in fruit exports to China.
The first batch of watermelon seeds produced by farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces of Tien Giang and Hau Giang have been exported to Japan.
Farmers who grow watermelon in Ca Mau Province’s Ca Mau City are raking in high profits because of a bumper harvest and rising prices for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday when the fruit is used on virtually every family...
Vietnamese and Chinese enterprises on Wednesday signed agreements in principle on watermelon trade in 2018 and the following years, at a conference in the central province of Quang Ngai.
Watermelon farmers in Duc Linh District, coastal central province of Binh Thuan, worry about watermelon prices during the Tet festival, which sometimes fall.
An entrepot will be built in the northern province of Lang Son, with the
aim of reducing the accumulation of agricultural products at the border
gates.
Watermelon and grapefruit are two typical fruits that are indispensable
in the ancestral altars of Vietnamese families during the Lunar New Year
or Tet.
"They said it''s from HCM City, but it costs only a few thousand dong per
kilogram," Nguyen Thi Giang said, eying a pile of watermelon. "I do not
dare to buy it due to its cheap price."