After 9 months, the agricultural industry has experienced many difficulties and challenges such as: Russia-Ukraine conflict, high inflation in many countries around the world, disruption of the global supply chain, leading to variable export markets. However, the industry still grew quite well at 2.99% compared to the same period last year, trade surplus still reached 6.9 billion USD, 2 times higher than the same period last year.

According to a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the figures in the industry continue to affirm the supporting role of the economy, contributing to the overall growth of the national economy.

 

Processing dragon fruit for export in Long An.(Photo: VNA)

Specifically, the export turnover of items such as coffee, pangasius, shrimp, wood and wood products achieved impressive double-digit growth, contributing significantly to the impressive export results of the whole industry. in the past 9 months. The above results are achieved thanks to the industry's ability to improvise and be flexible in finding markets, changing products in line with world market fluctuations.

At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development taking place on the afternoon of October 3, the representative of the agriculture industry also pointed out that the challenges from now until the end of the year are the situation of decreasing orders, increasing inventories of goods. increased due to the decline in purchasing power of many world markets, forcing the industry to implement many solutions from now until the end of the year, continuing to accelerate the restructuring of the agricultural industry towards green growth.

After 9 months, the total export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products reached 40.8 billion USD, up 15% over the same period last year, the export target of the whole year Government is 50 billion USD.