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Vietnam’s rice exports from Jan. 1-15 reached 268,700 tons worth nearly US$165.7 million, up 38.7% in volume and 23.28% in value year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Food Association. However, export prices for 5% broken rice fell to $413 per ton, with 25%…
Thailand has resumed exporting durians to China following a temporary ban due to the latter’s stricter requirement regarding Basic Yellow 2, a carcinogen. Itthi Sirilathayakorn, deputy minister of Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, said…
Durian exports in the first 11 months of this year fetched US$3.1 billion, 44% up from a year earlier, customs data shows. China was the biggest market, accounting for $2.8 billion, or 90% of all exports, a 43% year-on-year increase. Thailand followed with…
Chinese green kiwi is being sold at VND20,000 (US$0.79) per kilogram onwards by wholesalers in Vietnam, a third of the prices of imports from Australia and New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand wholesale prices start at VND60,000 and go up to VND120,000.…
Exports of fruits and vegetables were worth an estimated US$6.6 billion in the first 11 months of 2024, a 27% increase from a year earlier. The Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association came up with the estimate based on customs data, which shows exports to…
Durian production in Laos has come to fruition and the industry is seeking opportunities to export to China – the world’s largest consumer of the stinky fruit. Tao Jian, a 54-year-old Chinese entrepreneur and the owner of Jinguo, a company with 50,000 durian…
Rice imports to the Philippines amounted to 2.8 million metric tonnes (MT) during the first 8 months of this year, 19% higher than he same period last year, data from the country’s Department of Agriculture (DA) showed. In its latest report, the department’s…
Passion fruits have become the fifth kind of Vietnamese fruits to be officially exported to Australia, following mango, longan, lychee, and dragon fruit. On Monday, the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in…
Vietnam exported 6.16 million tons of rice worth nearly US$3.85 billion in the first eight months of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has said. This marked a 5.9% increase in volume and a 21.7% growth in value from the same…
Rice was the Vietnamese product with the highest export value to Philippines in the first six months of 2024, with a turnover of $1.2 billion, up 41% over the same period last year. According to data from the Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines,…
Google Drive is now rolling out a useful feature for videos you upload: automatically generated captions. It seems the new feature is widely rolled out. The feature is available for personal Google Accounts and uses speech recognition tech to transcribe the…
Vietnam’s fisheries exports in the first half of 2024 were worth US$4.4 billion, up 6% year-on-year on higher demand in major markets like the U.S., China and the EU. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers’ latest report said key items…
Vietnam exported US$1.32 billion worth of durian in the first six months of 2024, up 45% year-on-year, according to customs data. It accounted for 65% of all fruit exports during the period and is growing increasingly popular in many key markets. China was…
Vietnamese exporter Tan Long Group has refuted an allegation by an Indonesian civil society organization that it sold rice to that country at much higher than market prices. According to the Vietnam Trade Office in Indonesia, the People’s Democracy Study…
According to customs data, Vietnam exported US$919 million worth of durian in the first five months, up 74% year-on-year. This made durian its top fruit export at 3.5 times that of dragon fruit in second place. Exports of the odoriferous fruit were worth $450…
The Philippines, one of the world’s largest rice buyers, has announced a reduction in rice import taxes from 35% to 15%, effective from early this August through 2028. This can be seen as the latest action by the Philippine government to tackle inflation,…
