Vietnam mulls future plans: rice or fruit exports? VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have called on Vietnamese leaders to rethink whether Vietnam should become a big rice exporter or fruit export power. The newly released report by the General Department of Customs (GDC) shows that, for the first time, Vietnam saw export turnover of fruit exceeding rice export turnover in the first seven months of the year. In 2012, the fruit export turnover was $770 million only. Meanwhile, the figure soared to $1.04 billion 2013, to $1.47 billion in 2014 and $2.2 billion in 2015.Just within four years, from 2012 to 2015, Vietnam’s fruit export value increased by three times.

Source: VietNamNet News September 16, 2016 07:07 UTC