Vietnam’s rice exports in the January-October period are estimated to have risen about 17.2% from a year earlier to 6.07 million tonnes, government data showed on Saturday.
Revenue from rice exports in the period is seen up 7.4% to $2.7 billion.
October rice exports from Vietnam, one of the world’s leading shippers of the grain, likely totalled 700,000 tonnes, worth $334 million.