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Vietnam’s cotton imports for marketing year 2024/25 (MY 2024/25) are forecast at 6.8 million bales, up 3 percent over MY 2023/24 based on an expected recovery in global demand for textiles and garments by mid-2024.

In 2023, feed demand was low due to weak demand in Europe and the United States for Vietnamese produced aquaculture products. Post expects aquaculture and livestock production to rebound in the in MY 2024/25 increasing overall feed demand and as a result also increasing corn consumption. As domestic corn production remains uncompetitive with foreign imports, corn imports are forecast to grow Wheat imports are forecast to decline due to market volatility.

Vietnam’s food processing industry comprises some 11,000 companies, valued at $73.8 billion in 2023. Growth in 2023 was 6.1%, down from a blistering 8.8% in 2021 and 2022.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) published Circular 50/2014/TTBNNPTNT on December 24, 2014, revising some articles of MARD’s Circular 66/2011/TTBNNPTTNT...

On June 29, 2015, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development released Decision 2515/QD-BNN-BVTV promulgating the List of Harmonized System codes for regulated articles subject to plant quarantine.

On May 11, 2015, the Ministry of Health (MOH) issued Circular 8/2015/TT-BYT to amend and supplement the food additive managing provisions regulated in MOH’s Circular 27/2012/TT-BYT.

The report provides trade data on Vietnam's monthly rice exports by grades and destinations, and weekly quotes for export rice by grades.