HANOI: Vietnam, the world’s third-largest rice exporter after India and Thailand, will export an estimated 2.5 million tonnes of the grain in the first five months of 2016, up 4.3 percent from a year ago, the government said on Friday.
Revenue from the January-May rice shipments, headed mostly for China, Indonesia and the Philippines, will reach an estimated $1.13 billion, up 8.4 percent from the same time last year, the General Statistics Office said in its monthly report.
The rice exports figures by the statistics office contradicts with data released by the country’s farm ministry earlier this week which said rice exports during the five-month period fell 2.1 percent to an estimated 2.35 million tonnes.
