Agrinews Vietnam eyes exports of seven million tons of rice this year

Vietnam eyes exports of seven million tons of rice this year

Tác giả Hoang Phong, ngày đăng 25/08/2020

Vietnam eyes exports of seven million tons of rice this year

Vietnam, the world's third largest rice exporter, is likely to ship seven million tons this year, the government says.

A farmer harvests rice by a paddy field outside Hanoi, June 10, 2019. Photo by Reuters/Kham.

"This will be 400,000-500,000 tons more than last year," Mai Tien Dung, chief of the Government Office, said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Exports in the first five months of this year increased by 3.7 percent from a year earlier to 2.86 million tons worth $1.4 billion, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). The average export price in January-May was $485 per ton, up 13 percent.

Dung said the country had irregular rice harvests this year as a result of dry weather and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta, a rice growing hub.

Last year Vietnam, the third biggest exporter after India and Thailand, had exported 6.37 million tons of rice for $2.81 billion, with the top market being the Philippines, which bought over 2.1 million tons.


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