Agro-forestry and fisheries exports hit US$8.67 bil in 4 months
(VOV) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported the export value of farm produce reached approximately US$4.54 billion in April, with agro-forestry and fisheries export turnover estimated at US$2.37 billion.
April’s results push agro-forestry and fisheries’ export value to US$8.67 billion for the first four months of 2013, up 0.4 percent against the same period last year.
Seafood is predicted to decline by 4.6 percent to US$1.71 billion due to plummeting demand in the important American, Japanese, and South Korean markets. But forestry’s export value could rise to US$1.69 billion—up 14.5 percent.
Rice export volume in the first four months of the year is forecast at 2.38 million tonnes earning nearly US$1.04 billion—up 7.6 percent in value and sliding 0.2 percent in volume compared to the same period last year. The first quarter’s average rice export price of US$445 per tonne is down 12.4 percent on 2012.
The volume of coffee exported over the first four months totalled 608,000 tonnes and earned over US$1.3 billion.