Vietnam Overseas

Vietnam has exported 30 tonnes dragon fruits to the US since May, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Of these, 10 tonnes are transported by seaway and the remainder have been sent by airway.

Vietnamese dragon fruit is sold at US supermarkets.  There are about 8,000 hectares under this kind of fruits in Vietnam now.

Source: www.nhandan.com.vn

Vietnam: Dong Nai’s first shipment of durian to the US

15 tonnes of durian have been exported to the US at a price of VND20,000 per kilo by the Biological Development Technology Company in southern Dong Nai province.

Dong Nai’s durian has been hybridized from the Thailand’s Mong Thon durian.

The company has so far invested VND3 billion in building a cold storage system in Long Khanh town, capable of storing and supplying more than 300 tonnes of durian a day, and 3 centres to provide hundreds of samplings a year for Dong Nai, Lam Dong and Dac Lak provinces.



Source: english.vovnews.vn

Low demand in major markets that have yet to overcome the global economic crisis will make it difficult for Vietnam to reach its export growth target of 3 percent in 2009, said a deputy trade minister.

It would be a great success if the country’s export value this year could even match last year’s, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Huu Hao at a government press briefing in Hanoi Wednesday.

Export turnovers dropped 13.4 percent year-on-year to $32.35 billion in the first seven months of 2009.

Foreign-invested firms reaped export revenues of $12.24 billion between January and July, excluding crude oil.

Hao said anticipated shipments would not affect the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth goal of 5 percent this year.

The decrease in export earnings was due to low demand in importing countries and price drops for many products, he said. Lower prices cut export revenues by more than $6 billion in the seven-month period.

The average price of crude oil fell 53.1 percent, while rubber dropped 45.8 percent, pepper 33.2 percent, coffee 29.24 percent, rice 28.6 percent and cashew nuts 19.5 percent.

Last year, the country earned $62.9 billion on exports, up 29.5 percent over 2007, according to the General Statistics Office.

So far this year, the trade surplus has reached $3.38 billion, or 10.5 percent of the export revenue, much lower than that of 40.8 percent in the same period of 2008.

In the seven-month period, the country spent $35.37 billion on imported goods, a 34 percent drop year-on-year.


Source: thanhniennews.com

    Vietnam raked in 245 million U.S. dollars from export of vegetables and fruits in the first seven months this year, about the same value during the same period last year despite global downturn, according to the agricultural ministry on Thursday.

    In July, the country’s fruit and vegetable export turnover was 35 million U.S. dollars, said the information center of the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

    In the first seven months, Russia topped the list of the country’s foreign importers of these goods with 26 million U.S. dollars.

    China came to the second position with 24.7 million U.S. dollars. It was followed by Japan, said the center.

    Other importers of Vietnam’s vegetables and fruits are the Netherlands, the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore.

    Vietnam is expected to rake in about 400 to 500 million U.S. dollars from export of vegetables and fruits this year, said the center.

    The country targets to earn 760 million U.S. dollars from export of vegetables and fruits by 2010 and 1.2 billion U.S. dollars by 2020.


Source: news.xinhuanet.com