Vietnam pocketed about 2.39 billion USD from agro-forestry-fisheryexports in September, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment.
The figure has raised the sector’s totalexport turnover in the first nine months of this year to 20.45 billionUSD, representing a year-on-year increase of 0.5 percent.
Among the export items, pepper and cashew recorded the most impressive growth in both volume and value.
Over the past three quarters, Vietnam exported a total of 188,000tonnes of cashew nuts for 1.19 billion USD, up 16.5 percent in volumeand 9.3 percent in value.
The US, China and theNetherlands were key markets of Vietnamese cashew, accounting for 34.4percent, 16.6 percent and 10.4 percent of the country’s total exportvalue respectively.
Meanwhile, pepper export volume rose by20.2 percent to 112,000 tonnes, earning 743 million USD, up 16.5 percentyear-on-year.
Wood and wood product export brought home389 million USD in September and 3.77 billion USD in the past threequarters, up 12 percent over the corresponding time last year.
The sector’s export to major markets such as the US, China, Japan andthe Republic of Korea grew strongly, ranging from 7.8 percent to 49percent. The only significant exceptions were the German and Frenchmarkets.
During the January-September period, seafood exports experienced a rise of 3 percent year-on-year to 4.61 billion USD.
The US remains Vietnam’s largest seafood customer, making up 21.6percent of the country’s total export value, up 10.6 percent against thesame period last year.
While Vietnam’s fishery exportenjoyed remarkable growth in China, Canada and Thailand with 53 percent,13.8 percent and 13 percent respectively, the figures in Japan, the RoKand Germany dropped by 0.6 percent, 14.1 percent and 2.6 percent.
The country exported around 471,000 tonnes of rice in September,bringing home 214 million USD. This fell far short of the country’s650,000 tonne target, itself lowered from the 750,000 tonne goalpreviously set by the Vietnam Food Association.
In the firstnine months of this year, rice export saw decreases of 14.3 percent involume and 16.7 percent in value with 5.35 million tonnes shipped abroadworth 2.35 billion USD.
China remains Vietnam’s largestrice importer, consuming 1.62 million tonnes or 31.4 percent of thecountry’s total rice export turnover.
Experts forecast thatthe fourth quarter will be gloomy picture for the country’s riceexporters, saying Vietnamese businesses are finding it hard to seek newcontracts.
They pointed to India’s heightened efforts tobecome the world’s top rice exporter, Thailand’s increasing ricestockpiles and China’s move to reduce rice imports this year.
During the reviewed period, the Vietnamese coffee businesses delivered1.03 million tonnes to foreign importers, garnering 2.21 billion USD,down 23.1 percent in volume and 22.5 percent in value year-on-year.
With the present performance, experts said the yearly target of 4 billion USD may be out of reach for the country.
Apart from Germany and the US, the largest overseas drinkers ofVietnamese coffee, countries such as Russia, the UK and Spain have showntheir interest as well.
During the timeframe, rubberexports also contracted by 1.2 percent in volume and 17.8 percent invalue year-on-year, with 710,000 tonnes worth 1.68 billion USD deliveredabroad.
At the same time, Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fisheryimports enjoyed an increase of 10 percent over the same period last yearto 13.59 billion USD.-VNA
The figure has raised the sector’s totalexport turnover in the first nine months of this year to 20.45 billionUSD, representing a year-on-year increase of 0.5 percent.
Among the export items, pepper and cashew recorded the most impressive growth in both volume and value.
Over the past three quarters, Vietnam exported a total of 188,000tonnes of cashew nuts for 1.19 billion USD, up 16.5 percent in volumeand 9.3 percent in value.
The US, China and theNetherlands were key markets of Vietnamese cashew, accounting for 34.4percent, 16.6 percent and 10.4 percent of the country’s total exportvalue respectively.
Meanwhile, pepper export volume rose by20.2 percent to 112,000 tonnes, earning 743 million USD, up 16.5 percentyear-on-year.
Wood and wood product export brought home389 million USD in September and 3.77 billion USD in the past threequarters, up 12 percent over the corresponding time last year.
The sector’s export to major markets such as the US, China, Japan andthe Republic of Korea grew strongly, ranging from 7.8 percent to 49percent. The only significant exceptions were the German and Frenchmarkets.
During the January-September period, seafood exports experienced a rise of 3 percent year-on-year to 4.61 billion USD.
The US remains Vietnam’s largest seafood customer, making up 21.6percent of the country’s total export value, up 10.6 percent against thesame period last year.
While Vietnam’s fishery exportenjoyed remarkable growth in China, Canada and Thailand with 53 percent,13.8 percent and 13 percent respectively, the figures in Japan, the RoKand Germany dropped by 0.6 percent, 14.1 percent and 2.6 percent.
The country exported around 471,000 tonnes of rice in September,bringing home 214 million USD. This fell far short of the country’s650,000 tonne target, itself lowered from the 750,000 tonne goalpreviously set by the Vietnam Food Association.
In the firstnine months of this year, rice export saw decreases of 14.3 percent involume and 16.7 percent in value with 5.35 million tonnes shipped abroadworth 2.35 billion USD.
China remains Vietnam’s largestrice importer, consuming 1.62 million tonnes or 31.4 percent of thecountry’s total rice export turnover.
Experts forecast thatthe fourth quarter will be gloomy picture for the country’s riceexporters, saying Vietnamese businesses are finding it hard to seek newcontracts.
They pointed to India’s heightened efforts tobecome the world’s top rice exporter, Thailand’s increasing ricestockpiles and China’s move to reduce rice imports this year.
During the reviewed period, the Vietnamese coffee businesses delivered1.03 million tonnes to foreign importers, garnering 2.21 billion USD,down 23.1 percent in volume and 22.5 percent in value year-on-year.
With the present performance, experts said the yearly target of 4 billion USD may be out of reach for the country.
Apart from Germany and the US, the largest overseas drinkers ofVietnamese coffee, countries such as Russia, the UK and Spain have showntheir interest as well.
During the timeframe, rubberexports also contracted by 1.2 percent in volume and 17.8 percent invalue year-on-year, with 710,000 tonnes worth 1.68 billion USD deliveredabroad.
At the same time, Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fisheryimports enjoyed an increase of 10 percent over the same period last yearto 13.59 billion USD.-VNA
