Vietnam's Ben Tre province prepares to export fresh coconuts to China

Ben Tre Province in Vietnam, known as the 'Coconut Capital', is actively preparing to export fresh coconuts to China, with over 133 planting areas meeting the necessary regulations and an application for a planting area code to be reviewed. The province is also focusing on increasing organic coconut cultivation and maintaining traceability of products, with the aim to maintain coconut planting areas around 79,000 and 80,000 hectares in the next few years.

Ben Tre Province is known as the "Coconut Capital of Vietnam", with a planting area of over 79,000 hectares, the largest in the country, and a production of more than 700 million coconuts. Coconuts have long been regarded as the main crop in Ben Tre Province, with an average annual export value of more than US$400 million. At present, the local government, people and enterprises are actively preparing to export fresh coconuts to the Chinese market in the future. Duan Wending, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ben Tre Province, revealed that there are currently 133 coconut planting areas in the province that meet the current regulations; the area of the application for the export of fresh coconut planting area code is nearly 8,400 hectares, attracting more than 12,800 farmers to participate. This is to meet the requirements of the Vietnamese Data related to the raw material area of the plant quarantine requirements for fresh coconuts exported from ...