In May alone, the shipments of the country’s most important export experienced a sharp increase and stood at 650,000 tonnes of the grain, equating to US$273 million of revenue.

Vietnam has set a target to export 7.5 million tonnes of rice in 2013, which is slightly higher than the 7.72 million tonnes exported last year.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Mekong Delta region harvested nearly 10.9 million tonnes of rice from the winter-autumn crop and it is expected to reap 9.3 million tonnes in the upcoming summer-autumn crop.

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