HANOI, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's export value of agro-forestry-fishery products in the first 10 months of 2016 is estimated to reach 26.4 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 6.3 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Wednesday.
In October alone, the export value is estimated at 2.75 billion U.S. dollars, said MARD in its latest statistics report.
Besides rice, Vietnam is estimated to witness growth in most of its agricultural export products.
During 10-month period, the country is likely to earn 1.9 billion U.S. dollars from exporting 4.2 million tons of rice, down 16.9 percent in value and 21.2 percent in volume year-on-year.
The average export price of Vietnamese rice stood at 449 U.S. dollars per ton, up 4.8 percent year-on-year.
China continued to be top importer of Vietnamese rice, with 35.4 percent of the market share.
From January to September, Vietnam sold 1.35 million tons of rice worth 613.8 million U.S. dollars to China, down 23 percent in volume and 13.9 percent in value year-on-year, said MARD.
Other markets that see plunges in Vietnam's rice imports include the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States and Cote d'lovior among others.
During the January-October period, Vietnam is forecast to rake in 2.76 billion U.S. dollars from shipments of 1.5 million tons of coffee, up 25.4 percent in value and 40.2 percent in volume year-on-year.
At the same time, exports of pepper are forecast to reach 1.29 billion U.S. dollars from 159,000 tons, up 15.3 percent in value and 35.7 percent in volume year-on-year.
Meanwhile, cashew exports will bring Vietnam 2.33 billion U.S. dollars, up 16.6 percent year-on-year.
In the first 10 months, Vietnam's seafood exports see a year-on-year increase of 5.9 percent to 5.7 billion U.S. dollars while forestry products fetched 5.8 billion U.S. dollars, up 0.1 percent year-on-year, said MARD.
