Vietnam allows groundnut imports from India

In April last year, Vietnam had suspended import of groundnuts due to interceptions of quarantine pests in Indian consignments. The Dollar Business Bureau  

The lifting of ban came a month after a Vietnam delegation visited India in December 2015.

  Vietnam has lifted the ban on the import of Indian groundnuts after nine months and started allowing inbound shipments from January 18, the government said on Monday. “The Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have formally communicated the decision to the Indian government stating that Plant Protection Department of Vietnam (PPD) will issue import permits for groundnuts for January 18, 2016,” the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement. In April last year, Vietnam had temporarily suspended import of groundnuts from India due to interceptions of quarantine pests in consignments exported since January, 2015. Later, the department of agriculture, cooperation and farmers welfare had sent the detailed report on investigation and remedial measures taken in the matter to Vietnam. The lifting of ban came a month after a Vietnam delegation visited India in December 2015. The delegation was satisfied after seeing fumigation facilities, export procedures and export certification system for export of groundnuts export from India, as per the standard operating procedure developed by the Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Faridabad, the statement said. Before the ban, Vietnam was the second largest importer of Indian groundnuts after Indonesia. According to data, the country’s groundnut exports have decreased by 22% to 2.19 lakh tonnes in the first seven months of 2015-16 as against 2.81 lakh tonnes during the same period a year ago.

February 1, 2016 | 06:10pm IST