Agricultural exports by country

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) – The export value of fruits and vegetables in the January-November period saw a slight decrease of 0.6 percent year on year to 3.5 billion USD, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The drop is attributable to falling earnings from some staples such as dragon fruit which accounted for 31 percent of total fruit exports (down 9 percent), durian (down 17.4 percent), coconut (down 35 percent), longan (down 56 percent) and watermelon (down 26.4 percent. The MARD’s Agricultural Products Processing and Market Development Department said the strong decrease in exports to China, which accounted for 66.8 percent of all fruit and vegetable exports of Vietnam, was also a reason behind the fall. The rise in exports to the US, the European Union, Japan and the Republic of Korea was not enough to compensate for the reduction in the Chinese market. In the same period, 1.63 billion USD was spent on … [Read more...] about Fruit, vegetables exports see slight decrease

Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Fruit and vegetable exports in April reached 462 million USD, bringing their total export turnover in the first four months of 2019 to 1.4 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 7.2 percent. According to the Department of Agro Processing and Market Development (Agrotrade) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first three months of the year, fruit and vegetable exports had actually witnessed a year-on-year reduction of over 9 percent. China ranked first in Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable import market, accounting for over 72 percent of the total export turnover. It was followed by the US with 3.26 percent, the Republic of Korea (RoK) 3.22 percent, Japan 2.9 percent, and the Netherlands 1.71 percent. Strong growth was seen in Australian imports (up nearly 53 percent), the RoK 31 percent, and the Netherlands 28 percent. After being licensed by the US to import fresh mangoes in February 2019, on April 18, … [Read more...] about Fruit, vegetable exports bounce back in April

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) - The Hoa Phat Group said its subsidiary - Hoa Phat Steel Pipe Co., Ltd - exported 17,000 tonnes of steel pipe in the first 11 months of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 22.3 percent. The group said Hoa Phat’s products are sold in North America, Southeast Asia, India, Australia and Latin America. In November alone, 72,500 tonnes of Hoa Phat steel pipe were sold out, up 27.6 percent from the same period last year, making it become the biggest steel pipe supplier in Vietnam with over 31 percent of the market share. The firm set to sell 750,000 tonnes of steel pipe in domestic and foreign markets in 2019, towards realising its sale growth target of 10 percent in 2020, Vice Director of the Hoa Phat Steel Pipe Co., Ltd, Nguyen Thai Son said. According Son, big-size steel pipe products of the firm will be officially introduced in late December, serving the country’s major construction projects./. VNA … [Read more...] about Hoa Phat’s steel pipe export surges 22.3 pct in 11 months

Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Truong Quang Nghia (R) presents a gift to Chairman Bounpone Sisoulath of the Lao National Assembly’s Economic, Technology and Environment Committee at the meeting on December 10 (Photo: VNA) Da Nang (VNA) – A delegation of the Lao National Assembly’s Economic, Technology and Environment Committee led by the committee’s Chairman Bounpone Sisoulath had a working session with the Party Committee of the central city of Da Nang on December 10. At the meeting, Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Truong Quang Nghia said Da Nang’s location in the East-West Economic Corridor is convenient for the city to develop trade with Laos. He asked Chairman Bounpone Sisoulath to propose the Lao NA and Government continue developing the East-West Economic Corridor, thus facilitating the trade of industrial and agricultural products between Vietnam’s central provinces and Laos’s … [Read more...] about Lao National Assembly delegation visits Da Nang

Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (L) and  President of the Senate of the Netherlands Ankie Broekers-Knol  (Photo: VNA) The Hague (VNA) - Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has expected that her ongoing official visit to the Netherlands will further deepen the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the European country in general and the Dutch parliament in particular. During her talks with President of the Senate of the Netherlands Ankie Broekers-Knol in The Hague on March 27, Chairwoman Ngan expressed her hope that the visit will open up new cooperation prospects in bilateral relations as well as cooperative ties between Vietnam, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU), especially when Vietnam and the Netherlands are celebrating the 45th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties.   [Vietnam’s top legislator holds talks with speaker of Dutch lower house] … [Read more...] about NA leader expects stronger Vietnam-Netherlands relations