Exporting 100,000 fresh coconuts to the US / week, Thai coconuts are no longer exclusive
According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tung, Director of Vina T&T Import Export Trading and Service Co., Ltd, from July 2017 up to now, the company has exported (exported) fresh coconuts (type of sodermic coconut to drink water) to the US (already peel off), with very good outlook.
It is known that each week, Vina T&T exports to the US about 5 containers of fresh coconuts, equivalent to 100,000 coconuts.
Ben Tre Siamese coconut, after peeling, reaches the weight of 0.9-1 kg to meet the export requirements. Illustration
Fresh coconuts from Vietnam initially competed with Thai fresh coconuts in the US. This is a good sign, because Thailand has almost exclusively exported this product to the US for a long time.
The export of fresh coconuts to the US also helps Ben Tre farmers to consume sapodilla coconuts during a time of low domestic consumption when the Northern provinces are in the cold season.
At a meeting with leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on building and promoting the brand of Vietnamese agricultural products, Ms. Huynh Thi Kim Quyen, CEO of Global Agricultural Corporation (GAL), said, the need to import Fresh coconut water imports are very large in many markets such as the US, Korea, Canada, Astralia ...
Fresh coconut peeled for export.
In particular, in the US market, fresh coconut water is one of the items attracting a large number of consumers. Currently, the two main sources of fresh coconut water for the US market are Thailand and the Philippines.
However, due to strong demand in the US, the supplies from these two countries could not meet the import needs of US businesses. Therefore, many US businesses have had to source goods from Vietnam.
To export fresh coconut water to the aforementioned markets, there are two ways to get fresh coconut water in cans, boxes or export raw peeled coconuts. Currently, in Vietnam, there are a number of enterprises investing in canned fresh coconut water separating lines. This is the basis for promoting the export of fresh coconut water in our country, especially coconut water in Ben Tre.
Coconut export is a industry with a relatively high growth rate of about 80% / year. However, our country's coconut export turnover is still low, about 200 million USD / year, currently Ben Tre coconut products have been exported to 36 countries such as EU, UK, France, USA, China, Thailand. , Egypt ... with export products such as fresh coconut, peeled / fresh coconut, dried coconut, canned coconut water ...
