Dong Nai agriculture still has ample room for growth

Dong Nai province is already among the country’s leading localities in industrial and agricultural development. Even so, the province’s agricultural sector still has ample room to raise productivity, quality, and value. Many crops and livestock in the province have developed green, clean production chains that meet export standards for demanding markets such as Japan, the United States, Europe, and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Specifically, in 2025, Dong Nai’s agricultural, forestry, and fishery exports reached nearly 9 billion USD, accounting for more than 12% of the country’s total agricultural, forestry, and fishery export turnover. Dong Nai’s agricultural, forestry, and fishery exports are expected to continue rising in 2026 and the following years if the 5-component linkage (farmers, the State, scientists, banks, businesses) is implemented effectively. Under this model, the State provides support through transparent, open mechanisms and policies that enable scientists to transfer scientific advances to farmers; banks provide capital support with streamlined procedures and preferential interest rates for both farmers and businesses. Businesses link with farmers to secure clean raw material zones for preliminary processing, deep processing, and supply to both domestic and export markets.

Dong Nai currently has more than 615,000 hectares of perennial crops, more than 164,400 hectares of annual crops, a total livestock herd of over 3.9 million head, and nearly 35.7 million poultry. This feature provides an abundant supply of raw materials for deep processing, helping raise added value for the province’s agricultural sector. According to economic experts, deeply processed agricultural products for export can be worth 4 to 6 times as much as raw exports. Exporting processed agricultural products also helps farmers worry less about peak harvest seasons, when supply can outstrip demand and prices can fall sharply.

However, agricultural production in Dong Nai, as well as nationwide, largely follows a reverse process, with insufficient in-depth research to produce in line with export market demand. As a result, many agricultural products often face the situation of "bumper harvest - low prices." And the practice of "rescuing agricultural products" still occurs frequently in many localities.

In recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has continuously organized international trade conferences in Vietnam, with each event attracting 500-700 wholesale and retail corporations from around the world to seek sources of goods for their store chains, supermarkets, and shopping centers in various countries. Especially over the past three to four years, multinational corporations have shown a strong interest in sourcing agricultural, industrial, and handicraft products from Vietnam. Therefore, products that meet green and clean criteria, have clear origins, and offer competitive prices can readily find foreign customers to sign large-volume, long-term purchase orders.

Through these trade conferences, many Vietnamese agricultural products, including those from Dong Nai, have penetrated international markets. This feature is also one of the factors that helped our country's agricultural, forestry, and fishery exports reach a record high of more than 70 billion USD in 2025.

With more than 101,000 hectares of fruit cultivation, Dong Nai produces large volumes of high-quality fruit, including bananas, mangoes, durians, pomelos, rambutans, dragon fruit, and jackfruit, among others. If fresh fruit with attractive appearance can be exported, and the remainder is deeply processed into products such as cakes, candies, beverages, dried, or soft-dried items... then fruit alone could bring the province billions of USD each year.

By Khanh Minh – Translated by Mai Nga, Minho