More "visas" for Vietnamese watermelons to enter the Chinese market

On December 13, the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the General Administration of Customs of China signed a Protocol on plant quarantine requirements for fresh watermelon exported from Vietnam to China.

This is a step to promote the official export of traditional agricultural products of Vietnam and standardize regulations on agricultural exports between the two countries.

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The Protocol specifies import requirements from China to ensure that fresh watermelons from Vietnam comply with China's laws, regulations and standards related to food hygiene and safety as well as plant quarantine requirements, thereby creating a basis for compliance by Vietnamese production, packaging and export units.

According to this Decree, fresh watermelons from Vietnam must not be contaminated with five live plant quarantine species of concern to China, including fruit flies Bactrocera correcta, Bactrocera zonata, Bactrocera latifrons, aphids Phenacoccus solenopsi and bacteria Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli; leaves or soil.

All growing areas and packing facilities for watermelons exported to China must be registered and approved by both the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the General Administration of Customs of China. The growing areas must apply Good Agricultural Practices (GAP); and the monitoring of the growing areas and packing processes at the packing facilities must be ensured.

Packing facilities must establish a traceability system to ensure that fresh watermelons exported to China can be traced back to the growing area that has been assigned a code.

Vietnamese watermelon shipments will be imported through all Chinese ports authorized by the General Administration of Customs of China to import fruits; must undergo 2% plant quarantine sampling and must comply with China's national food safety standards.

Thus, up to now, Vietnam has exported fruits and agricultural products under the protocol to China including: mangosteen, black jelly, durian, banana, sweet potato, watermelon.

According to the General Department of Customs, by the end of November 2023, fruit and vegetable exports to China brought Vietnam 3.4 billion USD, an increase of 2.6 times over the same period last year.

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