Customs officially admitted Vietnamese jackfruit.

Published 2025년 12월 24일

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Vietnam has long exported star fruit to China, but primarily through informal border trade channels, leading to extremely unstable prices, with frequent sharp drops during the harvest season. Vietnam currently has about 84,000 hectares of star fruit plantations, mainly concentrated in Ben Tre and Tien Giang provinces in the Mekong Delta region, with an annual production exceeding 1 million tons. In 2024, Vietnam's star fruit export value was only about 146 million USD, but after the export to China shifts to formal trade, it is expected that the export value will be significantly boosted. Customs announcements show that pests of concern to China include the three-striped fruit fly, LepidoSaphes baileyi, new star fruit mealybug, yellow-winged silkworm, South Pacific coccoidea, large oceanic coccoidea, West African coccoidea, spider mite coccoidea, and seven-horned wax coccoidea. Star fruit orchards exporting to China should establish a complete quality management system and traceability system under Vietnamese supervision. They should implement Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and implement integrated pest management (IPM). During the packaging process for export to China, star fruit should be manually selected, sorted, and cleaned to remove diseased fruit, infested fruit, rotten fruit, malformed fruit, branches, leaves, or other plant residues and soil, and effective measures such as high-pressure air guns or water guns should be used to spray and wash the fruit surface. If necessary, a fine, soft, clean cotton cloth can be used to manually wipe the surface of the star fruit to effectively remove insects, insect eggs, and pathogenic spores adhering to the fruit surface.

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Vietnam has long exported starfruit to China, but primarily through informal border trade channels, leading to extremely unstable prices, often experiencing sharp drops during the harvest season. Vietnam currently has approximately 84,000 hectares of starfruit plantations, mainly concentrated in Ben Tre and Tien Giang provinces in the Mekong Delta region, with an annual production exceeding 1 million tons. In 2024, Vietnam's starfruit export value was only around $146 million, but after transitioning to formal trade with China, the export value is expected to significantly boost Vietnam's starfruit exports. Customs announcements show that the quarantine pests of concern to China include the three-striped fruit fly, Lipaphis erysimi, new starfruit mealybug, yellow-winged pyralid moth, South Pacific cochineal, Pacific cochineal, West African cochineal, flat-spined mealybug, and seven-horned wax scale. Starfruit orchards exporting to China should establish a complete quality ...
Source: Foodmate

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