HANOI: Vietnam’s rice exports in the first half of 2015 are estimated to have dropped 6.2 percent from the same period last year to 3.05 million tonnes, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
Revenue from the grain exports in the six-month period will reach an estimated $1.32 billion, down 10.5 percent from a year ago, the ministry said in a monthly report.
Vietnam, the world’s third-largest rice exporter after India and Thailand, could ship 6.5 million tonnes of the grain in 2015, unchanged from the previous year, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has said.
