date:Jun 26, 2014
6 million U.S. dollars by shipping overseas around 586,000 tons of rice, up 5.29 percent in value and 9.37 percent in volume from the previous month, said VFA.
Vietnam is one of the most important rice producers and exporters in the world. Rice plays the most important role among all agricultural commodities in Vietnam in terms of food security, rural wages and employment, as well as export revenues.
In 2013, Vietnam earned 2.99 billion U.S. dollars from exporting 6.72 million tons of rice. Th