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Article: VIETNAM'S BLUE-DRAGON FRUIT TAKES FLIGHT TO US MARKETS IN SEPT.
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- August 20, 2008
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HANOI, Aug 20 Asia Pulse Vietnam will begin exporting blue-dragon fruit (cactus fruit) from its southern provinces to the US starting at the end of September, now that fruit quality meets the necessary standards.
Despite Vietnams broad variety of tropical fruit, the country has previously been unable to export directly to the US, one of the world's largest markets.
During a visit to the US in late June, PM Nguyen Tan Dung said that if blue-dragon fruit could enter the US market this year, other Vietnamese fruit such as longans, rambutans, lychees and even durian would follow.
Dung later told a meeting with overseas Vietnamese in Texas that ...