Vietnam is estimated to rake in US$8.115 billion from agricultural or farm, forestry and fisheries products in the first eight months of 2007, the General Statistics Office said.
Of the total, seafood exports contributed to US$2.361 billion; forestry product exports US$1.499 billion and farm produce export US$4.225 billion.
In Jan-Aug period, Vietnam’s seafood export made an on year rise of 14.1 per cent to hit US$2.361 billion.
Seafood export to traditional markets like Japan, EU, the US, China, Poland, Ukraine remained high while to new markets like Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Greece showed much potential, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporter and Producers (Vasep).
Forestry products export generated in US$1.499 billion in Jan-Aug, an increase of 23.3 per cent from that of 2006.
Especially, export of non-timber forestry products like rattan, bamboo and sedge also gained a sharply rise of 17.4 per cent, to US$148 million in the first eight months.
Farm produces, including eight key export items of rice, coffee, vegetable and fruit, rubber, pepper, cashew nut, tea and peanut, fetched US$4.225 billion.
Among them, coffee export made most remarkable growth both in terms of volume and value, at 940,000 tons and US$1.413 billion, respectively.
Following was rice export with total revenue jumping to US$1.154 billion (up 12.2 per cent) despite a slight decrease of 4.8 per cent in terms of volume. Exported rice volume in Jan-Aug was 3.592 million tons.
With US$808 million revenue, rubber export ranked third in farm produces. But the figure showed on year decrease of 0.6 per cent in value and 1.2 per cent in volume with 422,000 tons being exported totally.
Cashew nut export posted the fourth position with total export surging by 20.5 per cent in volume and 24.4 per cent in value, to 96,000 tons worth US$396 million, respectively.
In spite of a sharp fall of 42.6 per cent in volume, at only 58,000 tons, pepper export revenue still increased by 20.3 per cent to US$178 million in eight months. The country remained as the biggest pepper supplier for the world, making for nearly 60 per cent of global market share.
Tea export saw modest rise by 7.2 per cent in volume and 6.2 per cent in value, plodding to 70,000 tons worth US$72 million.
Peanut export made most surprising rise at 177 per cent in volume and 216.1 per cent in value to climb to 36,000 tons valued at US$30 million. (GSO Aug Edition, Vietnam Economic Times)
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