According to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), the country exported560,020 tonnes worth 291.5 million USD in September alone.
The Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper on Oct. 4 quotedDeputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien as saying thatVietnam ’s rice export markets continue to be expanded as someSoutheast Asian nations are importing large volumes of Vietnamese rice.
Indonesia plans to import around 1.5 million tonnes of rice from Vietnam , he added.
Vietnam expects to export 7 million tonnes of rice this year, the highest volume for a year so far./.