Agricultural exports to China or cargo only to Borders?

Coffee, pepper, cashew nuts, fisheries, wood and wood products continues to be the sector with the increase both in volume and value. The main products include: rice, rubber, tea, cassava and cassava products tend to decline due to seek and expand new markets in reducing pressure depends on the Chinese market.
 
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hong, Deputy Head of the Steering develop export market of vegetables, flowers, fruits, MARD said, so far, many agricultural products of Vietnam exported to the difficult markets in the European Union Europe, USA, Japan, Korea ...
 
Particularly green grapefruit, dragon fruit has been present in 40 countries and territories around the world, production of fresh dragon fruit exports reached 326,000 tonnes last year, with exports worth over 200 million USD. Only in the first 3 months of this year, export prices of dragon into the Canadian market rose sharply, reaching about $ 2,300 / ton, up 15.9% over the same period last year.
 
According to Nguyen Xuan Hong, to continue growth in exports of agricultural commodities businesses need to change the approach, maintain and develop the traditional market through improving the quality and the value of agricultural commodities that Vietnam has the advantage of exporters. On the other hand must increase investment in technologies for post-harvest processing of agricultural commodities.
 
"Enterprises need to increase investment in technology for the processing of domestic agricultural products. For example being able to build plants Biofuels Ethanol production using raw materials from cassava in water, or the use of wood chips in the forest sector for the processing of wood products instead of imports these items, "said Hong mentioned solution.
 Through application of processing technology and trade promotion, many businesses have been successful in finding new markets for agricultural products. If only tuna consumed in the domestic market, the recent past trade promotion Binh Dinh Province has signed with the company Japan's Kato Group fresh tuna exports to this market first. In addition, more than 20 tons of litchi apply membrane technology has penetrated the Japanese market this year.
 
According to Dr. Dang Kim Son, Director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, in exports, trade promotion is always considered a key stage in the development of the market and must be made both macro and micro.
 
Accordingly, businesses need to be more active in exploiting new markets to avoid the risk of depending too much on a market such as China. In particular, the emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa with huge import demand for agricultural commodities in Vietnam is an opportunity for exporters.

 
"To ensure the market must first master the structure, understanding the purchasing power of consumers and market channels. Which must answer the questions: Who, What will the value chain is the consumer of their products? For the Chinese market, we know sell products to the border but who intermediaries, where we still do not know. One such market may well today but tomorrow is not necessarily safe, "Dr. Dang Kim Son analysis.
 
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ha Cong Tuan said that the Ministry has directed the relevant authorities to review the market and coordinate with the ministries and agencies working with associations and enterprises to solve difficult constraints and problems of enterprises. Besides, support, facilitate enterprises to boost production; review and timely information about market conditions for appropriate adjustment of production scale.
 
"The continued resolve to remove the difficulties of enterprises, adapt to the market changes, to make maximum efforts to maintain market and industry growth rate this year under the central goal and Government Affairs for the agricultural sector this year to 3% GDP growth. Next is focused on improving the quality of industry breakthroughs are restructuring, "Deputy Ha Cong Tuan specified.
 
In recent years, exports of agricultural products, forestry and fisheries are accounted for nearly 20% of total merchandise exports of the country. Some agricultural commodities in Vietnam is occupying high position in international markets such as cashew nuts, pepper, rice, coffee, tea ...
 
Many other commodities have the potential to export growth in the future as vegetables, fruit, fresh flowers especially as Economic Partnership Agreements trans-Pacific strategy (TPP) was signed time next. /.