Vietnam ships sugar to 28 markets

Sugarcane (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam exported 43,000 tonnes of sugar to 28 markets, earning 20.6 million USD, in the first nine months of this year.

Vietnam currently has 41 sugar plants with a total designed capacity of around 150,000 tonnes of sugarcane a day.

According to the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam concluded the 2016-2017 sugar production crop.

During this crop, more than 13 million tonnes of sugarcane were used to produce over 1.2 million tonnes of sugar.

The new crop is scheduled to begin in November.-VNA

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