Fruit and vegetables brought home USD 1.32 billion in the period, up nearly 30 percent year-on-year.
Exports of agro-forestry-fishery products in the first four months of the years also saw a year-on-year surge of 11.9 percent, estimated at USD 12.3 billion.
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The export value of fruit and vegetable in the first four months of 2018 has exceeded earnings from crude oil for the first time ever. |
The country raked in USD 6.5 billion from exports of main agricultural products, USD 2.4 billion from seafood and USD 2.7 billion from main forestry products, up 11.9 percent, 13 percent and 7.9 percent from the same time last year, respectively.
During the period, the country shipped 2.16 million tons of rice abroad, earning USD 1.1 billion, year-on-year increases of 21.7 percent in volume and 37.7 percent in value.
China continued to be the largest importer of Vietnamese rice when it purchased 411,600 tons, or 29.1 percent of the rice market share.
In the January-April period, cashew exports experienced sound expansion in terms of both volume and value. Some 103,000 tons of cashew were shipped abroad at a value of USD 1.04 billion, rising 23.1 percent in quantity and 31.9 percent in value from the same time last year.
Earnings from coffee regained a slight rise of 0.4 percent to USD 1.3 billion despite an 18.1 percent increase in volume with 691,000 tons. Meanwhile, the export value of cassava went up 3.2 percent to USD 376 million in the period.
In a stark contrast, rubber and pepper saw their export values down of 21.4 percent and 33.2 percent, respectively.
Source: VNA