China accounts for 95 per cent of Myanmar’s fruit exports, more than 200,000 tons worth, this financial year according to a representative of the Myanmar Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Producer and Exporter Association quoted in Myawady Daily yesterday.
Watermelons are the leading fruit export to China, with an export volume of 139,400 tons and an estimated value of US$12 million. Mangoes were the second leading fruit exports at 30,523 tons, followed by muskmelon exports at 21,749 tons.
Myanmar’s fruit export volume increased by 710,000 tons, year-on-year, in FY2015-2016 and by 940,000 tons in FY2016-2017.
Total Sino-Myanmar bilateral trade in the first three months of this financial year reached $2.82 billion, including $1.2 billion in exports and $1.6 billion in imports.
Source: globalnewlightofmyamar.com
