Tea exports up 15.4 percent in Q1

Vietnam exported 26,000 tonnes of tea in the first quarter of 2019, earning a turnover of 45 million USD, up 2.1 percent year-on-year in volume and 15.4 percent year-on-year in value.

Last year, Vietnam gained 217.83 million USD from shipping more than 127,000 tonnes of tea overseas, down 8.9 percent in volume and 4.4 percent in value (Photo: VNA)

Pakistan was the largest importer when it splashed out 81.63 million USD on buying 38,213 tonnes of Vietnamese tea (Photo: VNA)

It was followed by China’s Taiwan with imports of 18,573 tonnes worth 28.75 million USD and Russia with 13,897 tonnes valued at 21.21 million USD (Photo: VNA)

Consumption is expected to surge, mostly in China and India (Photo: VNA)

Experts said that Vietnamese companies should invest heavily in handmade tea and botanical tea, which are preferred by consumers today to raw green and black tea (Photo: VNA)

Harvesting tea buds at the Bau Can Tea Joint Stock Company in Chu Prong district, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai (Photo: VNA)

Since 2011, the company has produced its products under VietGAP standards on the whole area to improve the quality of its tea (Photo: VNA)

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