Bananas are becoming a rising star in Việt Nam’s fruit export sector, now covering approximately 161,000ha hectares out of the country’s more than 1.3 million hectares of fruit-growing land.
Banana farms must have growing area code and follow Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) standards while packaging facilities are required to build an origin tracing system to ensure food safety standards before export to China.
The Hoang Anh Gia Lai Agricultural JSC (HAGL Agrico) has opened a banana packaging plant in Cambodia and shipped its first batch of fresh bananas to China to meet growing demand, the Khmer Times reported last week.
Vietnamese bananas have marked their official presence in Japan''s market
with the first bunches hitting the shelves of the discount chain Don
Quijote on April 30.
The Vietnamese banana industry has seen a relatively sharp increase in
export prices since early this year due to surging demand on
international markets.
The northern province of Vinh Phuc plans to expand cultivation of its
strongest exports in farm produce, such as red-flesh dragon fruit, Hong
aromatic bananas and chayote (a type of gourd.)