Seoul, Sept. 9 -- The Jeonbuk Agricultural Cooperative and Jeonju Horticultural Cooperative of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on September 8 held a ceremony to mark the shipment of the first batch of 2025-season pears to Vietnam.
The first shipment, weighing 16.2 tonnes and valued at about 60 million KRW (roughly 43,000 USD), will be distributed to major Vietnamese cities such as Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
Vietnam's climate is generally unsuitable for pear cultivation, except in certain northern mountainous provinces like Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Ha Giang and Cao Bang, where cool weather and high altitudes allow small-scale production. However, locally grown pears are typically small in size, have a short harvest season of just two months, and ar...