date:Jul 03, 2013
p 12.4 per cent; and earnings from aquacultural products stayed at the same level as last year at 2.88 billion USD.
Most export staples such as rice, coffee, rubber, tea and cassava saw decreases in both price and volume. Coffee suffered the highest reductions, dropping 24.2 per cent in volume to 795,000 tonnes and earning only 1.71 billion USD, 22.4 per cent less than the figure of the same period last year.
Export of cassava also witnessed a deep decrease during the first six months of the y