Fruit and vegetable exports aim for $10 billion.

(HQ Online) - Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports are projected to reach over US$7.12 billion in 2024; with large-scale production and linkages, fruit and vegetable exports are aiming for US$10 billion by 2030.

Durian is one of Vietnam's key agricultural export products. Photo: Ngoc Thach

This information was provided by the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association at its 5th term General Assembly on January 6, 2025.

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Binh, Chairman of the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association, the country currently has over 150 industrial-scale fruit and vegetable processing facilities, with a total designed capacity of 2.2 million tons of products per year, in addition to over 7,000 small-scale processing facilities.

Vietnam's fruit and vegetable processing industry has undergone many changes over the past five years. Numerous new processing facilities and factories equipped with advanced technology and machinery have been built and put into operation, providing a larger volume of processed fruits and vegetables and contributing to improved product consumption capacity for farmers.

The fruit and vegetable processing industry also creates many product varieties from the same raw material, contributing to increased consumption and market expansion for fruits and vegetables. However, the current capacity of the fruit and vegetable processing industry is not commensurate with the strong growth of the raw material production sector.

According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung, fruit and vegetable exports have been continuously increasing for a long time, especially in 2024, when the entire agricultural sector exported over 62 billion USD, with the fruit and vegetable sector making a significant contribution.

Most major markets, the main markets for Vietnamese businesses, have overcome trade barriers; export quality has improved significantly, and Vietnamese fruits are increasingly popular in many markets… making Vietnam a leading country in fruit and vegetable exports.

"With the above prerequisites, Vietnamese fruit and vegetable businesses need to maintain and expand their market share in key and traditional markets," Deputy Minister Hoang Trung emphasized.

According to businesses, to support export production, the State has issued many policies to pave the way and promote the development of agriculture in general and fruits and vegetables in particular, such as: building medium-term and long-term development strategies for the agricultural sector, restructuring the agricultural sector, promoting mechanization, automation, application of high technology, developing green agriculture, circular agriculture, reducing emissions, digital transformation, mobilizing, encouraging and supporting producers to apply good agricultural production practices such as VietGAP, Global, registering and implementing regulations on planting area codes, packaging facility codes... in order to improve productivity, output, quality, and increase the added value of agricultural products to meet market demands, with the aim of gradually shifting from small-scale production to large-scale, concentrated production for sustainable development.

Vietnam is integrating well into the global economy . The government has actively negotiated and signed 16 new-generation free trade agreements to expand export markets for fruits and vegetables, especially the agreements between Vietnam and China on granting official import licenses for 12 Vietnamese fruit products, including durian, which have pushed Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to China to a new level of development.

In addition, trade promotion programs targeting traditional and new markets have helped many businesses find customers and markets, contributing to the increasingly strong production and consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Many new forms of consumption are emerging and developing rapidly, such as e-commerce, joint ventures, consumption partnerships, and market expansion.

Looking back over the past period, Vietnam's fruit exports have grown well in many markets. It is predicted that in the coming years, export markets will continue to develop and expand, focusing on five main regions: China, South Korea, ASEAN countries, Hong Kong, the United States, Canada, and the EU. In addition, there are potential markets such as India, the UAE, Australia, and New Zealand.

In particular, the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association has pointed out several limitations that need to be overcome in order to achieve the target of $10 billion in fruit and vegetable exports by 2030. These include: the production organization not fully meeting the requirements, especially export requirements; and the lack of production models based on value chains due to small-scale, fragmented, and dispersed production.

The area of ​​fruit trees grown using safe production processes (GlobalGAP, VietGAP) or following safe practices remains low (20-30% of the total area). The overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is always a cause of food safety issues, making quality management difficult and affecting the brand of Vietnamese fruit in both domestic and export markets.

The number of planting area codes and packaging facility codes issued by importing countries such as China is still small compared to the scale of production in Vietnam, especially for the durian industry. To date, there are only 708 planting area codes and 168 packaging facility codes covering approximately 25,000 hectares out of 150,000 hectares...

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