Agricultural exports increase by 12 per cent in first eight months
HA NOI (VNS) - Viet Nam has generated US$20.22 billion in revenue from its farming, forestry and seafood exports in the first eight months of 2014. This represents an 11.9 per cent increase from that of the same period last year, with exports in August accounting for $2.47 billion, according to a Vietnam Economics Times newspaper report quoting figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The figures also revealed a year-on-year increase in the value of exports from the farming sector by 5.7 per cent, to $11.4 billion. The same was true for the fishing sector, which registered a 25.4 per cent year-on-year increase to $4.95 billion, and the forestry sector, which posted a 12.7 per cent year-on-year increase to $3.87 billion. Ministry officials revealed that in the first eight months of the year, the average export price of Vietnamese rice rose by 3.1 per cent to $452.3 per tonne compared with that of the same period last year. But the average export volume of rice fell by nine per cent to 4.44 million tonnes, and the average export value of the commodity likewise fell by 5.3 per cent to $2.01 billion. During the period, Ministry officials revealed that rice exports passing through the border to The Viet Nam Food Association said rice exports to The association predicted the national export volume of rice to reach 1.9 million tonnes in the third quarter, 1.4 million tonnes in the last quarter and 6.3 million tonnes for the entire year, as a result of the high demand for rice exports in the The ministry reported that coffee exports in the first eight months gained a year-on-year increase of 26.8 per cent in volume to 1.22 million tonnes and 22.3 per cent in value to $2.53 billion. But the export volume represented only half of that in May, and this was attributed to a low supply of coffee from farmers and enterprises since April. Meanwhile, exports of cashew achieved a year-on-year surge of 13.9 per cent in volume to 188,000 tonnes and 15 per cent in value to $1.22 billion. The US, In the first eight months, pepper exports also jumped by 23.9 per cent in volume to 126,000 tonnes and 38.2 per cent in value to $926 million compared with that of the same period of last year. The four largest export markets for Vietnamese pepper are the The exports of seafood products reached $4.95 billion in the first eight months, or 25.4 per cent more than that of the same period of last year. The |
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