Great opportunity for Vietnamese farmers when passion fruit, a fruit rich in vitamin C, is successfully exported to the US

A delegation from Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reached an agreement with the US to initiate the legal procedures for importing Vietnamese passion fruit. This comes as part of ongoing negotiations on plant quarantine measures for fresh passion fruit. Vietnam is a major producer of passion fruit, with over 12,000 hectares dedicated to the crop, and exports to 20 countries. The country is actively improving the quality of its produce and promoting sustainable farming practices. Gia Lai province plans to expand its passion fruit tree area to 20,000 hectares by 2025. The province is also implementing various projects for the cultivation and processing of passion fruit. Hung Thom Agricultural and Service Cooperative is buying passion fruit from local farmers at prices two to three times higher than the market rate and exporting to France and Switzerland.

Previously, during the working trip to the US at the end of August 2024 of the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the two countries agreed to end technical discussions and move on to legal procedures, allowing the import of Vietnamese passion fruit to the US market. According to information from the Plant Protection Department (PPD) - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam and the US are negotiating on plant quarantine measures for fresh passion fruit. It is expected that after this process is completed, Vietnam will have more passion fruit products exported to the US market in 2025. The PPD said that our country's passion fruit has been exported to 20 countries around the world in the form of fresh fruit, frozen fruit and juice. With an area of more than 12,000 hectares of passion fruit, an output of 200,000 tons/year, concentrated in the Northern mountainous region and the Central Highlands, Vietnam is one of the countries that grow ...