The Chinese market accounted for 21.9% of the nation’s total agro-forestry-fisheries exports, up 12.5%, while the US and Japanese markets made up 20.4% and 7.6%, marking respective drops of 29.3% and 6.9%, on-year.

July alone witnessed the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries sector rake in US$4.62 billion, duly representing a rise of 5.3% on-year and bringing the seven-month export turnover to US$29.13 billion, a fall of 9.1%.

Most notably, farm produce exports surged by 13.2% to reach nearly US$14.99 billion compared to the same period from last year.

Accordingly, fruit and vegetable exports surged by 68.1% to US$3.23 billion while rice, cashew nuts, coffee, and livestock exports inched up 29.6%, 9.8%, 6%, and 27.4% to US$2.58 billion, US$1.95 billion, US$2.76 billion, and US$276 million, respectively.

In particular, the export price of rice hit US$534 per tonne, up 9.2%, while the export price of coffee also edged up 12.8% to US$2,540 per tonne.

Source: VOV