In the first six months of 2025, Viet Nam’s fruit export turnoversharply declined after two consecutive years of strong growth. The sector needs a strategy to enhance competitive advantages, focusing on potential products that are on track to reach and surpass the one-billion-USD mark, such as bananas, pineapples, coconuts, and passion fruit.

Viet Nam’s coffee exports reached 5.45 billion USD with 953,900 tonnes in the first six months of 2025, nearly equal to the whole year of 2024’s turnover of 5.48 billion USD. Maintaining traditional markets and increasing the export of deeply processed coffee are solutions for this industry to reach the target of 7 billion USD for the whole year of 2025.

Vietnam has issued a national action plan on building a transparent, responsible and sustainable food and food stuff system to 2030, with a goal of maintaining the export turnover of over 30 billion USD each year.

The fifth Republic of Korea-Vietnam Seminar for the Future was held in Seoul on November 10, attracting 200 participants.

The export turnover of aquatic products topped 8.5 billion USD in the first nine months of 2022, up 38% year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).