Vietnam: Agriculture overcomes "double difficulties", growing by 2.5% in exports

Published 2020년 12월 30일

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam held a conference to review the sector's performance in 2020 and outline its plans for 2021. The ministry discussed the challenges faced by Vietnamese agricultural products in export markets due to trade and technical barriers. In 2020, the sector proactively addressed technical issues in food safety and animal and plant quarantine with various countries. Despite the impact of Covid-19 and natural disasters, the industry saw a trade surplus of 10.4 billion USD, with five commodities exceeding 3 billion USD in export turnover. The ministry aims to leverage Free Trade Agreements to boost exports in 2021 and maintain a trade surplus. The agricultural sector also opened new markets for various products in 2020.

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Original content

On December 24, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held the 2020 Summary Conference and the implementation of the 2021 plan for the Agriculture and Rural Development (Agriculture and Rural Development) sector. At the conference, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that trade barriers, technical barriers are one of the typical difficulties that Vietnamese agricultural products have to face in the export process. In this perspective, the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that in 2020, the whole sector has actively resolved technical barriers in the field of food safety, animal and plant quarantine with countries and regions. territories such as Thailand, China, Australia, the United States, EU, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan ... Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong also said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has coordinated with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to review and ...

Source: Vinacas