Vietnam’s exports of fruits and vegetables to major markets like the US, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Thailand have surged despite the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
Vietnamese bananas put on sale in the RoK (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s exports of fruits andvegetables to major markets like the US, the Republic of Korea (RoK) andThailand have surged despite the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
Exports of those products to Thailand brought home 68million USD, up 233.4 percent; the RoK 67.4 million USD, up 21.8 percent; theUS 62 million USD, up 6.1 percent; Japan 57.7 million USD, up 15.5 percent; andthe Netherlands 34 million USD, up 9 percent.
However, a reduction of 29.1 percent year-on-year in exportsto China in the January-May period has affected the value for the first half,which hit 1.79 billion USD, down 12.2 percent year-on-year, reported theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoIT)’s Agro Processing andMarket Development Authority (AgroTrade).
In the first five months of this year, Vietnam earned 906.1million USD from fruit and vegetable export to China, down 29.1 percent year-on-year.
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Vietnamese bananas put on sale in the RoK (Photo: VNA) 
