date:Aug 30, 2013
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported that the value fell to 17.98 billion USD.
The drop was the result of the sharp fall in export value of major farming products, which plummeting 11.7 percent to 9 billion USD against the same period last year.
Contrastingly, fisheries and forestry products saw a year-on-year increase of 1.3 percent and 11.7 percent to 4 billion USD and 3.52 billion USD respectively.
Nguyen Viet Chien, Director of the ministry's Information and Statisti