In terms of rice, the country exported 2.69 million tonnes to earn US$1.21 billion, down 9.8% in volume and 5.9% in value year-on-year. Coffee exports fetched US$1.71 billion from 985,000 tonnes while 107,000 tonnes of pepper brought home US$864 million.
Rubber exports reached 429,000 tonnes, up 3.5%, but earned 12% less than that of the same period last year at US$532 million due to a price loss of 15%.
Cashew remains a strong commodity with an increase of eight% in price, earning the country US$1.2 billion, up 11% year-on-year.
The export value of fishery products in the first half of this year amounted to US$3.07 billion, a rise of 3.8% from the 2015 same period.
The United States, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea were leading importers of Vietnamese seafood with a proportion of nearly 53% of the total export value.
The forestry sector earned US$3.33 billion from exports during the period, a slight yearly downturn of 0.1%.
