Posts Tagged ‘ Dragon Fruit ’

Larger high-quality orchards needed for growing exports 

July 30, 2011
Larger high-quality orchards needed for growing exports 

Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]

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Vietnamese dragon fruit gains S. Korea access 

November 9, 2010
Vietnamese dragon fruit gains S. Korea access 

  South Korea has licensed imports of Vietnamese dragon fruit, becoming the third export market for the fruit after the US and Japan. Dragon fruit is Vietnam’s first fresh fruit that has gained access to South Korea, said the Post-Import Plant Protection Center No. 2 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. South Korea requires [...]

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Vietnam’s dragon fruits are returning to Japan

October 28, 2009
Vietnam’s dragon fruits are returning to Japan

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese dragon fruit is headed back to Japan after 10 years away. The news was revealed in the official gazette of the Japanese Government on October 20, 2009. Vietnam once exported dragon fruit to Japan in large quantities in the years prior to 2000. However, the Government had prohibited the import of [...]

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Vietnam farmer takes dragon fruit global

August 30, 2009
Vietnam farmer takes dragon fruit global

LookAtVietnam – Farmer Thai Duc Duy is well-known in some circles as the pioneer of the country’s dragon fruit exports, which is now available in nearly 15 countries. LookAtVietnam – Farmer Thai Duc Duy, owner of Duy Lan Dragon Fruit Farm in the south central province of Binh Thuan, is well-known in some circles as [...]

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Fruit growers struggle to meet export standards

July 13, 2009
Fruit growers struggle to meet export standards

A man checks pomelos for export in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre. Vietnamese farmers and orchard owners are losing out on export opportunities because their fruit do not meet global standards of cultivation and processing, experts say. They are also put at a disadvantage by the lack of a proper distribution network as [...]

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All’s well with fruit exports to China following new regulation

July 5, 2009
All’s well with fruit exports to China following new regulation

Dragon fruits are harvested at an orchard in the south-central province of Binh Thuan.LookAtVietnam – Fruit exports to China are running smoothly after a new quality assurance program obligated growers and packagers to register with the northern neighbor this week, officials said. According to a bilateral trade agreement effective Wednesday, watermelon, longan, lychee, banana, cassava [...]

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All’s well with fruit exports to China following new regulation

July 4, 2009
All’s well with fruit exports to China following new regulation

Dragon fruits are harvested at an orchard in the south-central province of Binh Thuan Fruit exports to China are running smoothly after a new quality assurance program obligated growers and packagers to register with the northern neighbor this week, officials said. According to a bilateral trade agreement effective Wednesday, watermelon, longan, lychee, banana, cassava and [...]

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43 provinces register information to export fruit to China

June 30, 2009
43 provinces register information to export fruit to China

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Agro-forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad) has sent an official letter to the Chinese side, providing a list of fruit-growing areas, fruit-packaging establishments and exporters of five types of fruit to China. The official letter was sent on June 29 by Nafiqad to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, [...]

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Firms race deadline on export fruit

June 27, 2009
Firms race deadline on export fruit

Workers at Ba Liem Workshop in Cai Be District, southern Tien Giang Province pack longan for export to China.LookAtVietnam – Local firms are racing against time to satisfy an agreement signed between Viet Nam and China to provide each other with detailed information on the origins of exported fruits. But there are complaints that the [...]

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Vietnam’s ‘dragon fruit’ now ‘flying’ to the US

June 24, 2009
Vietnam’s ‘dragon fruit’ now ‘flying’ to the US

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 10 consignments of red-skinned, white-fleshed ‘dragon fruit’ have been shipped by air to the US since Vietnam resumed efforts to develop an export market for them a month ago. Nguyen Huu Dat, Director of the Post-import Vegetable Product Quarantine Centre (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – MARD), who has just [...]

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