Vietnam rice exports to hit 5.5m tonnes this year
Sunday, 10 January 2010
HANOI, Jan 09 (Commodity Online): One of the world's top rice producers, Vietnam said it planned to export 5.5 million tones of rice this year.
According to country's Agriculture and Rural Development ministry, rice exporters have signed contracts to export 2.38 million tones of rice including contracts to export over one million tones of rice to Philippines so far.
The Ministry recently said that in 2010, agro-forestry-fishery export would bring a turnover of $16 billion, increasing $1 billion against 2009's figure.
In the first quarter, the total quantity of rice to be exported would be about 1.5 million tones.
Philippines has lately announced that Vietnam has won the third phase bidding session in December 2009 with total rice volume of 586,554 tonnes at price of $664.9 per tonne, to be delivered at Philippines' seaport. The delivery period will be from March to June 2010.
According to country's Agriculture and Rural Development ministry, rice exporters have signed contracts to export 2.38 million tones of rice including contracts to export over one million tones of rice to Philippines so far.
The Ministry recently said that in 2010, agro-forestry-fishery export would bring a turnover of $16 billion, increasing $1 billion against 2009's figure.
In the first quarter, the total quantity of rice to be exported would be about 1.5 million tones.
Philippines has lately announced that Vietnam has won the third phase bidding session in December 2009 with total rice volume of 586,554 tonnes at price of $664.9 per tonne, to be delivered at Philippines' seaport. The delivery period will be from March to June 2010.