Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s fruit export turnover is expectedto top 5 billion USD by 2025 and about 6.5 billion USD by 2030.
According to a plan to develop key fruit trees until 2025 and2030 approved recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development(MARD), Vietnam will concentrate on developing 14 key fruit trees, including dragonfruit, mango, banana, litchi, longan, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, rambutan,durian, jackfruit, passion fruit, avocado, and custard apple.
The area of these fruit trees is planned to reach 960,000 ha by2025 and 1 million ha by 2030, producing about 11 - 12 million tonnes and 13-14million tonnes of products, respectively.
MARD set to expand the total planting area of fruit trees nationwide to 1.2million by 2025 and 1.3 million by in 2030, with respective yields of 14million tonnes and 16 million tonnes.
The ministry has assigned its Plant Protection Department to coordinate with localities in diseasemanagement on fruit trees, and guide localities to develop planting area codesand traceability of the origin of products; and work with units on expanding export markets for fruitproducts.
It will join hands with localities and businesses in removing tradebarriers, expanding markets, promoting science and technology transfer, supportingfarmers in accessing capital, building concentrated fruit growing areas, anddeveloping deep processing facilities.
Statistics from the General Department of the Vietnam Customs show that dragon fruit recordedthe lar🎉gest export turnover in the first eight months of 2022, reaching nearly463 million USD. It was followed by banana and durian with 237 million USD and158 million USD, respectively./.
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