Keeping opportunities fresh in fruit and vegetable exports 11:00 | 05/02/2021
The export of Vietnamese fruit and vegetables is worth hundreds of millions of US dollars each year but is so far impeded by the lack of appropriate preservation technology. As regional countries are also upping their game, Vietnam may see incentives for upgrading the lifetime of its produce when exporting to foreign markets like the United States.
Vietnam earns hundreds of millions of US dollars from the export of fresh produce, but preservation techniques still lag behind other nations. Photo: Le Toan
The pandemic has raised the need to increase the preservation of fresh fruit, but weaknesses in technology and methods have made it difficult for Vietnamese products to add value for exports to the US market.