Vietnam has targeted to raise its vegetable, fruit and flower export revenues to 700 million US dollars in 2010, and one billion dollars in 2015 from 280 million dollars in 2006. The country has also planned to post the products annual export growth of 29 per cent since 2016. To this end, Vietnam will boost production of 10 kinds of fruits, including orange, grape fruit, pineapple, mango, longan and litchi.

It will also intensify trade promotion, especially in traditional markets such as China, Russia and Japan, expand vegetable and fruit cultivation areas, upgrade their trademarks, and encourage relevant factories, traders and exporters to renovate technologies and pay more attention to such issues as quality and packaging.

Vietnam has targeted 550,000 hectares of vegetables, 750,000 hectares of orchards, and 10,000 hectares of flowers by 2010, which are expected to annually turn out 11 million tons of vegetables, 9 million tons of fruits and 3.5 billion of flower sprigs, according to the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.