Agro-forestry-fishery exports hit about US$23.2 billion in the first five months of 2022, posting a year-on-year increase of 16.8 percent. Nine groups of products saw export values of more than US$1 billion in the period, including coffee, rubber, rice, cashew and vegetables.
Despite difficulties in export markets over the past time, Vietnam has earned a US$23.2 billion export turnover of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products in the first five months of 2022, up 16.8 percent while the trade surplus reached US$5.1 billion, up 3.1 times over the same period.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Can Tho City held a meeting to take opinions on a construction project on a center for linking the production, processing, and consumption of agricultural products in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued a circular stipulating the import of rice and dried tobacco leaves originating from Cambodia under tariff quotas for 2021 and 2022.
The General Department of State Reserves under the Ministry of Finance has issued a document on the provision of over 56,555 tons of rice from national reserve to HCMC to support pandemic-hit residents.
Trucks transporting eggs, dragon fruits, rice and chicken to food-gathering points in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday to be ready for delivering the goods to low-income workers in rental house areas, alleys and factories without operation due to Covid-19 who facing difficulty in foodstuffs and essential foods during social distancing.
Despite many achievements, the agricultural investment and development in the Central and Central Highlands of Vietnam are facing many challenges due to a shortage of capital, unstable prices, or a lack of market for products. Enterprises and farmers are looking forward to the third dialogue conference between Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and farmers scheduled to take place on September 28 in Buon Ma Thuot City in Dak Lak Province, with the hope that it will open the tie-knot and promote sustainable agricultural production development.
Farmers in provinces in the Mekong Delta have grown rice on an area of 1.6 million hectares in the summer-autumn rice crop this year. At the present, farmers in Dong Thap, Hau Giang provinces and Can Tho City start to harvest rice but they do not earn much due to poor productivity and low price.
