Promote the economy, bring fruit "abroad"

The Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and a number of localities are vigorously looking for new markets, leading to strong agricultural development, and investing in bringing fruits for export. This can be said to be an important and new potential direction for Vietnam's agriculture.

Hai Duong's first batch of longan exports to Singapore, Australia and the coming time to the US are the basis for asserting the right direction, reducing pressure on dependence on the Chinese market.

Conquering the fastidious market:

Plant Protection Department - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Agriculture and Rural Development) has issued 4 codes of growing area for export longan for enterprise (DN) and people in Chi Linh city to be eligible for export. According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hai Duong province, as of August 12, businesses have exported 45.2 tons of Chi Linh longan to difficult markets. Longan farmers in Hai Duong are waiting for the next "overseas" trips of this fruit.

Dragon Do Production Trading Service Co., Ltd. purchased the Northern fresh longan for the first time, and boosted the investment in a local preliminary processing and packaging factory in Hai Duong province, to ensure the quality of the "exported longan" fruits. foreign ".

With the advantage of large fruit, beautiful yellow skin, the Northern longan will be exported by the company for the first 50 tons of this year, according to the plan it is expected that the company will export more than 100 tons to the markets: Australia, Singapore. , EU, Middle East, ...

Despite the Covid-19 epidemic, thieu litchi in Bac Giang province continuously exported abroad. In Son La, 10 tons of red flesh dragon fruit of Thuan Chau district were also exported to the Russian market in the last days of July. Son La with many types of fruits such as dragon fruit, mango, longan ... are produced organically, meeting VietGAP standards and being issued with a planting area code, opening up the growth potential of agricultural exports to markets. fastidious in the world.

Before that, tens of tons of dragon fruit were exported to Japan by Ngoc Hoang Agricultural Cooperative (Son La province). This local mango has also been exported to the US.

Guaranteed to keep quality:

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Cung, Director of Dai Thuan Thien Clean Agricultural Products Company Limited (Can Tho City), said that the highlight of fruit export this year was the wave of importers transferring orders to buy directly from Vietnam. instead of buying through Chinese enterprises.

"Chinese enterprises are very good at trading. They buy" buckets "from Vietnam, then sort, pack and export to markets at high prices. Now, importers buy directly from Vietnam. In the South, only enterprises with background in quality management and methodical investment can meet this trend. This is a good trend for the Vietnamese fruit industry "- Mr. Cung assessed.

Enterprises exporting agricultural products mentioned the fact that markets such as the EU, Russia, Japan ... have huge demand for Vietnamese fruits such as grapefruit, longan, jackfruit, mango, durian. Enterprises are sending samples of many frozen products to customers. With the Chinese market, businesses are still steadily exporting green skin pomelo, longan and jackfruit. The important problem of Vietnamese fruit nowadays is that just ensuring quality and controlling pesticide residues will not worry about market shortage.

"For example, the demand for importing pomelos of many countries is very large, enterprises do not meet the orders even though the domestic market is bouncing on the market. The quantity of pomelos supplied is redundant, but the quality is lacking in each market" Supply evidence.

Strengthen promotion and promotion of products

Mr. Do Thang Hai, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, said that this ministry has just successfully organized an international online trade conference on Vietnam longan products 2020 with the participation of ministries, branches, localities and 70 importers. Exports to international markets, opening up opportunities for fruit products in local conditions, businesses face many difficulties in trade promotion due to the Covid-19 epidemic. In the coming time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and relevant agencies in guiding localities to apply high quality fruit growing models, meeting export standards; at the same time instructing enterprises to produce and apply technology to preserve and diversify products from fruits.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said that other markets (outside of China) are showing positive signs. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is trying to negotiate and remove technical barriers to open the fruit export market to the world.