Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Cashew exports fetched 2.2 billion USD in thefirst eight months of 2017, a rise of 24.9 percent from the same period lastyear, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The sum was earned from 223,000 tonnes of cashew, a drop of 1.1 percent year onyear.
Average cashew price in the first eight months of this year wasestimated at 9,865.4 USD per tonne, up 27.2 percent over the same period lastyear and 20.3 percent compared to the average price of 2016.
The ministry reported that in August, about 35,000 tonnes of cashew wasshipped abroad for 351 million USD.
The US, the Netherlands and China continued to be the leading markets ofVietnamese cashew, which consumed 36.7 percent, 15.6 percent and 11.7 percentof the country’s total export volume, respectively.
The highest growth was recorded in the Russian market at 67.1 percent,followed by the Netherlands with 44.9 percent, the US, 38.2 percent, Israel, 30percent and the US, 22.1 percent, added the ministry.-VNA
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