Vietnam rice exports notch volatile in Q1Vietnam’s rice exports faced an unpredictable first quarter this year, increasing in January, declining in February and recovering in March, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The rice export price also surged in March by 3.3 percent to 513.7 USD per tonne. The country’s overall rice exports in the first quarter of this year increased by 15.5 percent compared to the same period in 2017. However, rice exports to this market fell sharply by 95 percent in volume and 90 percent in year-on-year value. A similar but smaller-scale trend occurred in rice exports to Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia and France.

Source: VietNamNet News April 26, 2018 03:56 UTC