Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued a Plan to boost agricultural, forestry and fishery exports in 2025 to achieve the export turnover target of 65 billion USD.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, 2025 is a year with many unpredictable and complex fluctuations in politics, economy, and society in the world, directly and deeply affecting the agricultural sector. Especially when the world economy is still growing slowly and in the first months of 2025, the change in US tariff policies continued to create fluctuations for the world's economies, including Vietnam.
However, 2025 is also an important year, a year of acceleration and breakthrough to complete the Socio-Economic Development Plan and the 5-year Agricultural and Environmental Development Plan (2021 - 2025); a year of preparation and consolidation of foundations, a premise for our country to confidently enter a new era - the era of national prosperity and growth, towards the successful implementation of the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2021-2030).
Despite many difficulties, with the efforts of the entire industry, in the first 6 months of the year, the value of agricultural exports reached 33.5 billion USD, an increase of 14.3% over the same period in 2024. Of which, agricultural products reached 18.3 billion USD, aquaculture 5 billion USD, forestry 8.7 billion USD. However, some key products such as rice and vegetables have decreased in turnover.
To reach the target of 65 billion USD set for this year, the Ministry has proposed a series of solutions from market expansion, product diversification, and taking advantage of incentives from 17 free trade agreements (FTAs) signed bilaterally and multilaterally. In addition, the Ministry proposes that specialized agencies proactively coordinate with the border localities in the Northern region to monitor updates and forecast the situation of goods circulation in the area to ensure vehicle regulation, limit congestion, and affect the progress of goods exports in the last months of the year.
In addition, it is necessary to continue to take drastic actions to continue maintaining exports in traditional markets and adding appropriate product lines, adding some groups of goods that can increase export value in potential markets.
In particular, products with room for growth such as coffee, cashews, shrimp and fish, and specialty fruits continue to receive support for trade promotion and process standardization to meet the requirements of strict traceability and quality from the US, EU and Chinese markets. At the same time, potential markets such as the Middle East, ASEAN, and South America will also be boosted in exploitation.
The Ministry also requires localities to proactively prepare standard raw material areas, build growing area codes, and packaging facilities to ensure supply for export. Enterprises need to flexibly shift their market direction, focus on deep processing, increase added value to increase competitiveness in the context of high tax rates and logistics costs.
With the export recovery of many groups of goods, along with drastic management solutions, the agricultural sector expects to complete the target of 65 billion USD in export turnover, contributing to stabilizing the national trade balance and ensuring sustainable income for farmers.
