Vietnam shipped abroad agricultural and forestry products worth nearly 6.1 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of this year, up 26.7 percent over the same period last year, the local newspaper Vietnam Economic Times reported Wednesday.
During the eight-month period, the country earned nearly 4.4 billion dollars from exporting farm products and roughly 1.7 billion dollars from forestry items, the paper quoted the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as reporting.
In the period, main export items included coffee, up 90.7 percent to 1.4 billion dollars; cashew, up 24.4 percent to 396 million dollars; and pepper, up 20.3 percent to 178 million dollars.
Vietnam has targeted to ship abroad agricultural and forestry products worth 7.4 billion dollars this year. To this end, it is focusing on boosting production of items with big export advantages, establishing large-scale production zones attached to processing establishments and markets, and developing husbandry industry.
It is also focusing on building brands, registering product trademarks, improving quality, further tapping traditional markets such as China, the United States, Japan, and the European Union, while seeking new ones.
Vietnam exported nearly 7.2 billion dollars worth of agriculture and forestry products in 2006, up 19.7 percent over 2005.
Source: Xinhua
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