Agri imports and exports up handily

Total import and export turnover in the agriculture, forestry, and fishery sector in the first eight months of this year stood at over $60.9 billion. Exports reached $32.1 billion, up 21.6 per cent year-on-year, and imports $28.8 billion, up 44.1 per cent.

In August 2021, most of the processing factories of agricultural products, seafood, forest products and furniture in the South had to close because they could not meet the "3 places", lack of workers, many factories are located in the southern part of the country. in the "red zone", so all workers from the "blue zone" cannot come to work.

The stage of transporting goods to the export port passes through many provinces, blocked or restricted from circulation. As a result, exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in August dropped sharply.

EXPORTS OF MULTIPLE PRODUCTS DECREASE STRONGLY

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in August 2021 is estimated at nearly 3.4 billion USD; down 21.6% compared to August 2020 and down 22% compared to July 2021.

Compared to July 2021, there were only 3 groups of products with export growth, including: cassava and cassava products (up 26.6%), cereal products (up 1.1%), milk and products dairy products (up 0.8%). All the remaining products fell sharply in export value.

The biggest drop in export value was wood products with a decrease of 50.2%; pangasius and shrimp decreased by 29.7%; vegetables down 25.8%, pepper down 21.5%... over the same period last year.

The main cause of this decline is that the Covid-19 epidemic has had a great impact on the production and processing activities of many processing enterprises/factories for export, many enterprises and factories only operate in Vietnam. 30-40% capacity, even closed due to F0.

In the first 8 months, the export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products was estimated at 32.1 billion USD, up 21.6% over the same period last year. In which, the export of main agricultural products is estimated at over 13.9 billion USD, up 13.6%; main forest products reached about USD 11.2 billion, up 42.7%; seafood reached over 5.6 billion USD, up 7.1%; livestock production was estimated at 296 million USD, up 15.9%; production input group is about 1.1 billion USD, up 31.1%.

Although the export value of most items decreased in August, due to the strong increase in the first months of the year, in the first eight months of the year, many product groups still had an increase in export value.

In which: rubber exports increased by 23.3% in volume and 61.4% in value; cashew nuts increased 19.2% in volume, 15.1% in value; Cassava and cassava products increased by 13.4% in volume, 28.4% in value.

Particularly, although the export volume of pepper decreased by 1.3%, reaching only 200 thousand tons, but thanks to the increase in the average export price, the export value still reached 666 million USD, up 50.2% over the same period last year. .

In terms of coffee, although the volume decreased by 6.9%, the export value still increased slightly by 1.1%. Other commodities increased in value mainly by volume such as: livestock products increased by 15.9%; pangasius increased by 9.9%, shrimp increased by 7.7%; wood products by 45.4%; rattan, bamboo and sedge mats increased by 68.1%; cinnamon increased 36.6%.

In the group of agricultural, forestry and fishery products, there are 2 items that have decreased in both volume and export value in 8 months: rice down 14.8% in volume, down 6.8% in value; tea decreased 6.0% in volume and 1.6% in value.

Analysis of Vietnam's export market of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in 8 months: Asia accounts for 41.5% of the market share; America accounted for 31.3%; Europe accounts for 11.3%; Africa accounts for 1.9%; Oceania accounts for 1.5% market share.

The largest export market is the United States with over 9.3 billion USD (accounting for 29.1% of the market share), of which the export turnover of wood and wood products accounts for 71.0% of the export turnover. Vietnam's agricultural, forestry and fishery exports to this market.

Second is the Chinese market with nearly $6.1 billion (accounting for 18.9% of the market share), with the export turnover of vegetables and fruits accounting for 25.5% of the export turnover of agro-forestry-fishery products to the market. this school.

Japan ranked third with an export value of over $2.2 billion (accounting for 6.8% of the market share, of which the export of wood products is the largest, accounting for 43.0% of agricultural export value. forestry products into this market.

Ranked fourth is the Korean market with an export value of over $1.4 billion (accounting for 4.3%) and the largest export of wood products - accounting for 44.2% of the total agricultural export value. forestry products into this market.

STILL HEAVY ABOUT THINKING

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said that in the last months of the year, the Covid-19 epidemic is forecasted to continue to develop complicatedly with many difficulties and challenges of the world and domestic economy, causing consumption to decline. Domestic agro-forestry-fishery consumption and export will continue to face difficulties.

In the past time, especially in August 2021, the export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products has decreased sharply, due to the fact that in the social distance to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic, many localities have been too extreme when controlling. freight.

Many localities have been too extreme when it comes to controlling freight. The commune makes it difficult for the commune, the district to make it difficult for the district and the province to make it difficult for the province. That is cutting-edge thinking in management. Must limit cutting thinking in management, so that the agricultural industry limits risks and uncertainties.

Mr. Le Minh Hoan, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

For the agricultural sector, Minister Le Minh Hoan, said that for a long time, there are three short-term thinking that still exist. That's farmers thinking seasonally; business thinking business; government thinking tenure.

In order to remove difficulties and find a solution to the basic consumption of agricultural products and to export agricultural products, Minister Le Minh Hoan proposed three solutions. First, get rid of the seasonal mindset. Faced with any short-term pressure, farmers also need to join hands with the agricultural sector to come up with long-term visions from 5 to 10 years.

Second, strengthen dialogue. Any profession needs a development triangle, including state - market - society. Only when this interference interval is wide enough, the uncertainties and risks will be reduced.

Third, expand development spaces, promote regional linkages and sub-regional links. Currently, we are still thinking in the direction of dividing into provinces. To adapt to a series of problems such as epidemics and climate change, the agricultural sector must change, setting out common development strategies for all 13 provinces of the Mekong Delta.

To expand the development space, the parties, from state management agencies, businesses to cooperatives and farmers need to sit down to empathize with each other.

Minister Le Minh Hoan shared, the expansion of development space will help break down barriers to circulation of agricultural products from fields to processing plants, to businesses; from factories/enterprises to export ports. At the same time, it will also help save costs in goods circulation.

The epidemic has caused farmers and businesses to sink into many difficulties, but this is also the time for farmers and businesses to be clearly aware of the impossibility of small, fragmented and spontaneous production.

"Policy makers must put in the position of a business owner, to understand the difficulties when goods are congested. On the contrary, businesses also need to comply with production measures in the new situation such as ' 3 in place' to help the locality fulfill the dual goals of both disease prevention and control and socio-economic development. All stakeholders join hands to develop, creating a development ecosystem.” , the Minister emphasized.