dragon fruit

Retail Asia05/10/2023

China is expanding the cultivation of red-fleshed dragon fruit, which sells at lower prices than imports from Vietnam. Last year, it said it grew the fruit on 67,000 hectares and produced 1.6 million tons, which exceeded Vietnam’s output. The People’s Daily newspaper reported that farmers in Cixi in Zhejiang Province in eastern China worked all night […]

Retail Asia15/03/2023

Vietnamese dragon fruit is at risk of oversupply, while durian prices will likely plummet as China, the local fruits’ largest importer, continues growing an increasing amount of the two trees. Late last month, China announced its dragon fruit output reached 1.6 million tons a year, 200,000 tons higher than Vietnam’s output. According to Chinese customs’ […]

Retail Asia07/02/2023

Dragon fruit prices have tripled year-on-year in southern farms after China resumed border trading. Farmers in Tien Giang Province are selling red-fleshed dragon fruit at VND38,000 ($1.62) per kilogram and white-fleshed for VND32,000, up 10% from before the Lunar New Year holiday and triple from the same time last year. Nguyen Thi Hanh, a farmer […]

Retail Asia29/11/2022

Pomelo became the seventh Vietnamese fruit to be officially exported to the U.S. Monday with the first 100 tons being transported from the southern province of Ben Tre. The batch is split into six containers. Four of them will be exported by air and two by sea. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran […]

Retail Asia01/04/2022

Watermelon, dragon fruit, and other agricultural produce are being sold for VND 3,000-8000 ($0.13-0.35) per kilogram in HCMC and Hanoi since the China export situation remains grim. In HCMC’s Districts 12, Binh Thanh, Go Vap, and others, vendors can be seen on sidewalks selling large piles of fruits at extremely low prices. “This type of […]

Retail Asia10/01/2022

Around 300,000 tonnes of dragon fruit will soon be ripe for harvest but without buyers, as China clamps down on border trade, industry insiders said. With the northern provinces of Quang Ninh and Lang Son having both restricted trade at the border with China due to containers pilling up, many Chinese buyers have stopped purchasing […]

Retail Asia03/09/2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has made it difficult for Vietnamese dragon fruits, in season now, to be exported. China, which accounts for some 80 percent of Vietnam’s total dragon fruit exports, has restricted the flow of goods at some border gates as part of its pandemic safety precautions. Meanwhile, for markets like the European Union, the U.S. and […]

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China grows more dragon fruit, reduces imports from Vietnam

Chinese growers put Vietnamese durian, dragon fruit in risky oversupply

Dragon fruit prices triple

First Vietnamese pomelo exported to US

Dragon fruit sold for $1 per 6 kilograms as China remains inaccessible to exporters

300,000 tonnes of dragon fruit have no buyers

Dragon fruit suffers pandemic troubles