HARARE: China imported agricultural products worth US$657mil from Zimbabwe in 2022, up 22.64% year-on-year, the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe says.

This underlines China as a big market for Zimbabwean agricultural products.

These include products such as tobacco, macadamia nuts and cotton, the embassy said in a tweet.

“Meanwhile, Zimbabwean farmers reap big from the export boom,” it added.

China has become one of Zimbabwe’s top export destinations, ranking as the third-largest importer of Zimbabwean goods last year, according to data from the country’s trade promotion body ZimTrade and statistics office, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.

Zimbabwe’s agricultural exports to China are set to grow further after the two countries in 2022 signed a citrus protocol that could expand citrus exports to China, one of the world’s biggest consumers of citrus products.

Overall trade between the two countries surged 29.2% year-on-year to a record high of US$2.43bil in 2022.

 - Xinhua