Vietnam: Nearly a million dong a kilogram of imported vegetables

Vegetables

Vietnam

Published Nov 27, 2021

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As a fan of European-flavored dishes, Hanh, from Go Vap, said that in the past, if you wanted to buy imported vegetables for processing, you would have to order them at specialized stores for a few days. Supermarkets all sell. "Although the price is 5-7 times higher than domestic products, the quality of the products is different, so I still choose," Hanh said. A survey by VnExpress showed that baby spinach (spinach) and Wild Roquette Salad cost 95,000 VND, 100 grams, or 950,000 VND per kg, with mixed baby lettuce cost 82,000 VND 100 grams, equivalent equivalent to 820,000 VND per kg, Japanese cucumber is 750,000 VND per kg. In addition, green cabbage buds, baby broccoli, white - yellow - red broccoli and a variety of other spices imported from Australia, the UK, and Japan are also priced at 300,000-500,000 VND per kilogram.

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Explaining the extremely high price of imported vegetables, a representative of Ant Farm chain stores, specializing in imported vegetables and fruits, said that these are high-quality, strange and rare products, so the price is expensive. For example, the Wild Roquette Salad, a domestic product, is not available in the market. Meanwhile, because it is a fresh and perishable product, the cost of bringing it back to Vietnam is very high. In addition to storage costs, air freight accounts for a large proportion. "Preservation fees from importing countries and in Vietnam account for 40-50%, especially when affected by disease, the cost is even higher," said a representative of a store importing vegetables from Japan. Assessing the purchasing power of these vegetables, importers said that this is a group of products that the rich are interested in. According to Ant Farm's representative, each week his chain stores about 1 ton of vegetables of all kinds, but they are all consumed. He ...

Source: VNExpress