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Seafood exports rise 13pct in eight months
Seafood exports totalled $2.9 billion in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 13 percent compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Shimp and tra catfish saw the greatest growth in both volume and value, the ministry said, with shrimp exports rising by 15 percent in volume during the period to 110,300 tonnes and 20 p...
Robust action to defend tra exports
Vietnam is about to take official action against foreign misinformation about one of its billion-dollar export items. The local seafood sector is regularly called on to defend its products "We have submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), which will then combine with relevant ministries and agencies to send official proposals to Brazil's Ministry of Agr...
Trade ministry: Rice still ample for export this year
Strong foreign demand has pushed up reference prices of export-standard rice by $50 per tonne, but the trade ministry confirmed there would be no rice shortage for export this year. Deputy minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien, who is in charge of managing rice exports, told the Daily after a review meeting on Tuesday on exports in the last four months that there is still one million ...
Additional 1.2m tonnes of rice for export purposes
Ministry of Industry and Trade cooperated with ministry of agriculture and rural development to hold a meeting about the rice export situation in late 2010. The meeting was organised on August 31, 2010.
According to the reports, the rice exporters have already signed export contracts with total volume of 6.2 million tonnes. From the beginning of the year up to August 25, 2010, Vietnam reported ex...
Agricultural exports climb 20pct
Agricultural exports totalled $12.2 billion in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 20 percent compared to the same period a year ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced. Exports totalled $1.75 billion in August alone, the ministry said. The growth was attributed to a surge of 16.6 percent in farm products, which totalled $6.5 billion during the period; ...
Tra fish export to Brazil to be checked
The agriculture ministry has said the quality of tra fish for export is being checked after Brazilian authorities said they had found quality problems with tra imports from Vietnam and imposed a temporary ban.
Coffee exports expected to fall 4.5pct
Coffee exports from Vietnam, the world's second-largest producer, may drop 4.5 percent in August compared with last month, according to preliminary government figures that cut by 1 percent the estimate for shipments in July. Exports this month may total 85,000 metric tonnes compared with July's 89,000 tonnes and last August's 60,000 tonnes, the general Statistical Office said yesterday. Exports ...
Shrimp export scores high growth
Shrimp export in the January-July period increased strongly with $717 million, or a 22 percent growth rate year-on-year, and the strong growth is poised to continue over the rest of the year. According to the agriculture ministry's report, shrimp accounts for over one-third of fishery export value in the first seven months. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep) predi...
Sugar prices seen stable till end-September
Vietnam's sugar prices will stay stable until the end of September when the 2010-2011 sugar-cane crop starts, according to the Vietnam Sugar Association. The general secretary of the association, Ha Huu Phai, said there had been nearly 127,000 tonnes of sugar in the country's stock as of August 15. The last months of the year would not see a sugar shortage as the Mekong Delta would start their...
Ministry eyes stable rice market
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will work with relevant ministries and sectors to ensure balanced supply and demand for rice in both domestic and export markets by the end of this year. The ministry asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, provinces and the Vietnam Food Association to balance the country's volume of commercial rice for domestic consumption and exports. Peopl...
Higher quality lifts tea exports in July
Vietnam exported 10,000 tonnes of tea last month, earning export revenue of $14 million, according to the Vietnam Tea Association. With the money earned in July, total tea export turnover in the first seven months of the year stood at $91 million, a year-on-year increase of 6 percent, the association said. The association attributed the increase to higher tea prices compared with last year, wh...
Rubber exports increase strongly
Vietnam rubber exports have shown positive signs as the volume and turnover have risen respectively by 2.3 and 92.4 percent compared the same period of 2009.
Till the first week of August 2010, natural rubber price has gone up compared to July 2010, since Chinese importers have again started to look for source of supply, after tightening imports in May and June 2010. In addition, many other marke...
High rice price cuts exports
Rice exporters are facing difficulties negotiating export prices due to domestic rice price increases, said the Vietnam Food Association. The association said this increase had made farmers happy but brought concerns to exporters. The exporters would have more difficulty in confirming export contracts because they could not compete with rival countries. Over the last two weeks, rice prices hav...
Traders want to export more rice
Vietnamese businesses are awaiting the government's approval for raising the rice export target this year, as they have so far this year signed contracts to ship 6.2 million tonnes of rice, higher than the year's target of six million tonnes, due to strong demand from other markets in Africa and Asia, including China emerging as a big importer. Vietnam Food Association (VFA) chair Truong Thanh P...
Vietnam to ship 100,000 tonnes of rice to Bangladesh
Vinafood 2, Vietnam's major rice exporter, said it has signed a contract to sell 100,000 tonnes of medium-grade 15 percent broken rice to Bangladesh. The HCM City-based company, also known as Vietnam Southern Food Corporation, will provide the grain at $389 per tonne. The company described the South Asian country as a burgeoning market. Bangladesh recently imported 178,000 tonnes of rice from ...
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