date:Feb 11, 2014
Vietnam exported 257,000 tons of cashew nuts in 2013, up 15.8 percent year-on-year, presenting the eighth consecutive year the country has topped the world's cashew nuts exports.
In 2013, Vietnam earned 1.63 billion U.S. dollars from selling cashew nuts to overseas markets, up 9.7 percent year-on-year, said a report by Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Friday.
Together with exports of extra products from cashew nuts such as cashew nut shell oil, Vietnam's cashew export