illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA)– The export value of agricultural, forestry and fishery products is estimatedto see a year-on-year increase of 1.4 percent to 4.3 billion USD in the firsttwo months of 2017.
The value in February alone is estimated at 1.9 billion USD,according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Major farm products sawa year-on-year increase of 8.8 percent to 2.4 billion USD thanks mostly to asurge in coffee export, while seafood export value hit 844 million USD, down 3.1percent from the same period last year.
Meanwhile, the forestryindustry saw a slight increase of 0.3 percent in export value to 993 million USDin February.
In the first two months,coffee exports decreased by 7.3 percent in volume to 273,000 tonnes but went up22.3 percent in value to 616 million USDcompared with the same period last year.
Rice exports plummetedin both volume and value. Shipments dropped by 17.2 percent in volume to799,000 tonnes and by 40.6 percent in value to 248 million USD against the sameperiod last year.
Similar drops werewitnessed in other farming products, such as tea, cashew nuts, pepper; falling 6.9percent, 12 percent, and 36.3 percent, respectively in export value; and 1.4percent, 26.2 percent, and 19.8 percent, respectively in volume.-VNA
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