date:Apr 03, 2014
In the past ten days, lorries carrying watermelon have been making a 30-kilometer-long queue on northern Vietnamese border, and the line is getting longer as Vietnamese merchants rush to reach China to sell their fruit before they become too ripe.
Vietnamese watermelon merchants have incurred huge losses as the price of watermelon has plunged and some fruit have become rotten due to a long waiting period for their transport to Chinese markets.
Vietnam's Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Ho