The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development set a target of attaining US$6.5 billion in seafood exports in 2012. Under a seafood export development strategy for the 2010-2020 period, Vietnam will export US$10 billion worth of seafood products and become one the world's fourth biggest seafood exporters by 2020.

Coffee exports are forecast to hit 1.2 million tons and earn US$3 billion in revenue, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Thanh Lan, a Vietnamese company in the Central Highlands, has exported thousands of tonnes of salted ginger to Japan and the US over the years.

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has announced that it hit a record high of US$22.3 million in export turnover in January 2012, up five times against the same month of last year.

Viet Nam has re-entered the list of top ten countries gaining consumer confidence and spending intentions of Nielsen’s Global Survey in this regard by scoring 99 points.