Vietnam shipped its first boxes of rambutan to New Zealand on October 3 after seven years of negotiation on exporting this fruit to the market. This was reported by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Vietnam is the first country granted a licence to export fresh rambutan to the Pacific country.
The exports this time had 520 boxes containing 2 kilos of rambutan each. The exported rambutan to New Zealand were approved by the ministry’s Plant Protection Department. The fruits were packaged and labeled under New Zealand’s standards.
This is the third type of Vietnamese fruit (after dragon fruit and mango) entering New Zealand, a country with strict quarantine requirements.
In April, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Embassy of New Zealand officially announced Vietnam had permission to export its rambutan to New Zealand. This followed seven years of negotiation and efforts to meet standards on regions of cultivation, packaging, labeling, radiation treatment and quarantine.
Source: vietnamnews.vn
