Vietnam's rice export reaches over 4.6 mln tonnes

Though Vietnam's rice export to Asia in the period dropped by 20.8 percent over the same period last year, it saw strong increases in markets in Africa, the America s and Europe of 12.4, 37.7 and 139.3 percent respectively.

The country is expected to ship 650,000 tonnes of rice in September, raising the total volume for the first nine months to over 5.3 million tonnes.

The VFA forecast that rice exports this year can reach 7.6 million tonnes.

Last year, the country shipped a record 7.72 million tonnes of rice, earning 3.45 billion USD.

According to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, by this time, localities in the Mekong Delta harvested about 8.61 million tonnes of rice in this year's summer-autumn crop.