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Vietnam earned 369.1 million USD from exporting tra fish to the US in the first nine months of this year, up 42.9 percent year-on-year.

The first direct shipment of US corn to Vietnam has arrived in the country with the assistance of the Quang Ninh Port Joint Stock Company, the USDA, and the US Grains Council.

Senior Vietnamese and US officials on agriculture met in Hanoi on May 11 to discuss how to boost trade relations in the field between the two countries.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) may allow the import of star apples from Vietnam, Vietnam’s Commercial Counsellor in the United States, Dao Tran Nhan has said.

Vietnamese coffee price hit a near 11 month high this week in wake of the global price hike.

The US Senate’s approval of a bill that would repeal the US Department of Agriculture’s catfish inspection programme is good news for Vietnam’s tra fish industry.

A senior economist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has said that the Philippines may need to import more rice than initially forecast after super typhoon Haiyan damaged crops in Central Philippines.

Rice stockpiles in Thailand, once the largest exporter in the world, are expanding to a record amount as the government pledging scheme has spurred famers to plant massive crops adding to the global surplus. $0