Agro-forestry-fishery exports rake in $27.88 bln in 6 months

Vietnam posted $27.88 billion worth of agro-forestry-fishery exports in the first half of the year, a 13.9% rise year-on-year.

Of the total value, the groups of key farm produce and forestry products contributed $11.37 billion and $9.1 billion, up 8.8% and 3% respectively. Fishery products shipped overseas reeled in $5.8 billion, up 40.8%, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

Nine types of goods recorded an export revenue exceeding $1 billion in the period, namely coffee, rubber, cashew, vegetable-fruit, rice, tra fish (pangasius), shrimp, woodwork products, and inputs for production.

The ministry said the U.S. and China were the biggest importers of Vietnamese agro-forestry-fishery goods for spending more than $7.61 billion and $4.97 billion, increasing 7.9% and 5.9% from the same period last year, respectively. They were followed by Japan and South Korea.

Vietnam purchased agro-forestry-fishery products worth about $22.1 billion, hence a trade surplus of approximately $5.75 billion, nearly doubling the figure posted in the same period last year.