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Vietnam agriculture ministry outlines five measures to ease durian export difficulties

From Tuổi Trẻ · () Vietnamese

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  • Vietnam’s Agriculture and Environment Ministry says durian accounts for about 40% of the country’s crop-export output and has received particular policy attention.
  • The ministry has expanded digital traceability, eased procedures for growing-area codes and secured 567 additional Vietnamese durian growing-area codes from China, bringing the total to about 1,800.
  • Its next steps include opening new markets, organizing sustainable production, improving quality controls, expanding cold storage and processing, and strengthening laboratory capacity.

Vietnam’s Agriculture and Environment Ministry has set out five measures to address difficulties facing the country’s durian exports, a key crop sector that the ministry says contributes about 40% of agricultural export output.

Deputy Minister Dang Ngoc Diep said the ministry had sent working groups to localities, particularly the Central Highlands, southeastern Vietnam and the Mekong Delta, where durian cultivation is concentrated. The teams worked directly with local authorities to address obstacles affecting production and exports.

The ministry also introduced origin traceability through its digital transformation system on July 1. Customers can access information covering cultivation, care, fertilizer use and farming practices for agricultural products, including durian. Diep said trade counselors from the United States and China had praised the system, which he described as the ministry’s first such traceability effort.

Other measures included resolving problems businesses had faced when obtaining growing-area codes and transferring greater authority to local governments. Wards and communes can now issue growing-area and packing-facility codes for durian and other crops.

After ministry officials worked with China, China’s General Administration of Customs issued 567 additional codes for Vietnamese durian growing areas. Vietnam now has about 1,800 codes in total, including 1,599 growing-area codes and 281 packing facilities.

Looking ahead, the ministry plans to intensify trade promotion and diversify export markets. India agreed in July to allow Vietnamese durian imports, opening access to a market of more than a billion people with strong expected demand.

The other priorities are to reorganize production and develop sustainable growing regions, standardize quality, food safety and traceability, advance research and digital technology, expand storage, processing and logistics infrastructure, and strengthen the laboratory network.

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Originally published by Tuổi Trẻ in Vietnamese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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