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Vietnam to export 3.6 million tonnes of rice by September
Rice businesses can achieve the target of exporting 3.6 million tonnes of rice by the end of September with assistance from commercial banks.
The State Bank of Vietnam said commercial banks have provided businesses with a total of 13.3 trillion VND to buy paddy from farmers.
Thanks to the loans, businesses presently buy around 20,000 tonnes of paddy a day at the price of 4,700 VND-5,300 VND per kilo, up 300-400 VND.
According to the Vietnam Food Association, its members expect to buy up to 640,000 tonnes of commercial paddy from farmers in August.
The country expects a total yield of 37 million tonnes of paddy for this year, one million tonnes higher than 2007, with bumper crops in both the north and south.
Domestic businesses have signed contracts to export 3.5 million tonnes of rice in the first nine months of the year.
By mid-August, the country shipped abroad close to 2.86 million tonnes of rice.
Rice is Vietnam ’s fifth largest foreign currency earner, accounting for 20 percent of the total export turnover of the agro-forestry-seafood group.
VNA
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