Pork products at a Coopmart supermarket in Cong Quynh Street, District 1, HCMC, March 31, 2020.

The import value in 2020 increased 503 percent to $334.44 million, it said.

The rising pork imports are attributed to the low domestic supply caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, African swine fever, and the central Vietnam floods, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Brazil is the largest pork supplier with 24.5 percent of the total pork import value, followed by Russia with 24.1 percent and the U.S. with 13.7 percent.

Over 800 enterprises from 19 markets have been allowed to export pork to Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Source: VnExpress