Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam posted 27.88 billion USDworth of agro-forestry-fishery exports in the first half of this year, an annual increase of13.9%.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, of the total value, the groups of key farm produce and forestryproducts contributed 11.37 billion USD and 9.1 billion USD, both growing by8.8% and 3% year-on-year, respectively.
Fishery products shipped overseas during the six months,meanwhile, reeled in 5.8 billion USD, up 40.8% annually.
There were nine type of goods recorded an export revenueexceeding 1 billon USD in the period, namely coffee, rubber, cashew, vegetable-fruit,rice, Tra fish, shrimp, woodwork products, and inputs for production.
The ministry said the US and China were the biggestimporters of Vietnamese agro-forestry-fishery goods for spending more than 7.61billion USD and 4.97 billion USD, increasing 7.9% and 5.9% from the same periodlast year, respectively. They were followed by Japan and the Republicof Korea.
Also in the first half, Vietnam purchasedagro-forestry-fishery products worth about 22.1 billion USD, hence a tradesurplus of approximately 5.75 billion USD, nearly doubling the figure posted in the same period last year.
The encouraging outcomes were thanks to the implementationof mechanisms and policies for trade promotion, negotiations for reopening, andmarket development, among other factors./.
Despite difficulties due to weather, natural disasters and epidemics, agro-forestry-fishery exports set new record of 48.6 billion USD in 2021, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Total foreign trade in agricultural, forestry and aquatic products hit some 31.8 billion USD in the first four months of 2022, an increase of 7 percent against the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.Of the figure, exports were worth 17.9 billion USD, up 15.6 percent year-on-year, while imports totalled 13.9 billion USD, down 2.3 percent.
Agro-forestry-fishery exports hit about 23.2 billion USD 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 1 billion USD in the period, including coffee, rubber, rice, cashew and vegetables.
Vietnam has continued to make gains in agro-forestry-fishery production, and seen increases in agricultural exports thanks to its successful COVID-19 containment.
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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) 
