Industry report: Vietnam's agricultural exports hit record highs in 2025

2025 was a landmark year for Vietnam's agricultural exports: all three flagship commodities — coffee, cashew nuts and black pepper — set new export-value records, even as volume growth lagged behind in some categories (the gains were mostly price-driven). Here's a roundup of the key figures, with sources.

2025 export value (US$ billion)

Coffee$8.4B

Cashew$4.51B

Black pepper$1.44B

Chart redrawn by Whitehorse Foodtech from the cited figures below — not copied from the original reports.

Coffee: a record $8.4 billion

According to VietnamPlus (Vietnam News Agency), coffee export turnover for the 2024–2025 crop year hit a record US$8.4 billion, up roughly 60% year on year — well past the previous record of $5.62 billion set in 2024. The jump was driven mainly by higher world coffee prices rather than volume growth.

Cashew: $4.51 billion, up 19.3%

Cashew exports reached US$4.51 billion, up 19.3% year on year, officially breaking the 2024 record of $4.34 billion. Notably, export value rose sharply even as volume growth was more modest — a sign that international cashew prices improved significantly.

Black pepper: $1.44 billion, a record 9 years in the making

As of mid-November 2025, Vietnam had exported roughly 213,400 tonnes of black pepper worth US$1.44 billion — surpassing the previous record of $1.43 billion set back in 2016, meaning it took nearly a decade for Vietnamese pepper to set a new export-value record.

The common thread: value growing faster than volume

All three commodities show the same pattern: export value grew mainly because of higher prices, not proportional volume growth. For international buyers, this has two practical implications: (1) it's worth locking in price and volume early if you need supply certainty for long-term planning, and (2) working with a supplier that can guarantee consistent quality matters even more in a high-price market, since the risk of lower-quality material getting mixed into supply tends to rise along with price pressure.

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Figures in this article are summarized in Whitehorse Foodtech's own words from the public sources above as of the publish date; please check the original sources for the latest data.