Vietnam find a direction for dragon fruit to penetrate deeply into India and Pakistan

On August 5, at the conference on online trade of Vietnamese dragon fruit with partners in India and Pakistan 2021, Mr. Vu Ba Phu, Director of the Trade Promotion Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), said that dragon fruit was identified as the fruit with the first competitive advantage among 11 fruits in Vietnam. Dragon fruit is also classified as a key export fruit product and is often included in the group of billion-dollar export products of Vietnam in recent years. Mr. Pham Sanh Chau, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Vietnam in India, said that the Indian market is rich in potential for Vietnamese fruit products in general and dragon fruit in particular. India has 1.4 billion people, of which 60% of the people of this country are vegetarian, their food is mainly vegetables. On average, each person in India uses 3kg of fruit in a month, according to which the whole country will consume about 48 million tons/year. Meanwhile, India is an easy market. This ...