China, US, Japan become key importers of local agro- forestry-fishery exports
VOV.VN - China, the United States, and Japan continued to make up the three largest export markets for Vietnamese agricultural, forestry ,and fishery products in the opening seven months of the year, according to details given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
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.
