Việt Nam wants to tackle the consequences left over from years of war in the next few decades, a Government official said on Tuesday.— VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam wants to tackle the consequences left over from years of war in the next few decades, a Government official said on Tuesday. At a press conference on the country’s ordnance cleanup programmes ahead of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action that falls on April 4, chief secretariat of the office of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Ministry Nguyễn Bá Hoan said that Việt Nam’s Government and people as well as the international community were working together to speed up the process. According to the Ministry of Defence, about 800,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs and mines left over from wartime remain buried over 6.13 million hectares, accounting for 18.82 per cent of the country. At the current rate of clearance, it would … [Read more...] about Billions of dollars needed to clear all bombs, mines left from wars
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Vietnam’s agricultural sector obtained a trade surplus of USD 1 billion in the first two months
Accordingly, the country’s total export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products during the two-month period reached USD 4.5 billion, up by 3% in comparison with the same period last year. (Photo for illustration) In February alone, Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery exports earned USD 1.93 billion, bringing the figure in the first two months this year to USD 5.5 billion, a 1.6% decrease compared to the same period last year. Particularly, the revenue of agricultural exports was estimated at USD 2.71 billion, a decline of 10.1% and that of husbandry products was USD 77 million, down by 7 %. However, the sector has seen positive signs as its aquatic export turnover reached USD 1.1 billion, an increase of 4.4 percent, while its forestry products generated USD 1.5 billion, up by 12.8 percent. Translated by Tran Hoai … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s agricultural sector obtained a trade surplus of USD 1 billion in the first two months
Agricultural sector posts trade surplus of 1 billion USD in 2 months
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) – The agricultural sector posted a trade surplus of 1 billion USD in the January-February period despite a year-on-year decrease of 1.6 percent in export value. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the sector earned 5.5 billion USD from the export of farm produce and forestry and aquatic products. In the two months, the revenue of farm produce exports stood at 2.71 billion USD, a drop of 10.1 percent; while that of animal husbandry hit 77 million USD, down 7 percent. In the first two months of this year, the country saw a trade deficit of 84 million USD. Total export-import turnover hit 73.44 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 6.7 percent, of which, export revenues increased 5.9 percent to 36.68 billion USD and import value rose 7.5 percent to 36.76 billion USD. -VNA … [Read more...] about Agricultural sector posts trade surplus of 1 billion USD in 2 months
Vietnam, third largest rubber exporter, imports $1 billion of synthetic rubber yearly
Vietnam, third largest rubber exporter, imports $1 billion of synthetic rubber yearly VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam takes pride as one of the world’s biggest natural rubber exporter, but it still has to spend nearly $1 billion a year to import mostly synthetic rubber products to satisfy domestic production. Vietnam is a big natural rubber exporter A report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) showed that in November alone, Vietnam imported 46,000 tons of rubber materials, raising the total import volume in the first 11 months to 543,000 tons, worth $1 billion, an increase of 8.8 percent in volume and 1 percent in value compared with the same period last year. To organize large-scale production, enterprises have to spend big money to import technologies, machines and equipment. Since enterprises remain unable to import expensive technologies, it is better to import suitable materials. Nguyen Viet Bac from the Institute of Materials Chemistry and Do … [Read more...] about Vietnam, third largest rubber exporter, imports $1 billion of synthetic rubber yearly
Ninh Binh earns over 1.1 billion USD from exports in nine months
The fibre factory of the Lam Giang Trade JSC, based in Ninh Binh city of Ninh Binh province (Photo: baoninhbinh.org.vn) Ninh Binh (VNA) - The northern province of Ninh Binh earned 1.1 billion USD from exports in the first nine months of 2018, up 33.6 percent year on year, helping the locality fulfill 88.9 percent of its yearly target. Key products with hikes in export included textile-garment, cement and clinker, and electronic components, all together making a rise of 12.8 percent compared to that of 2017. Besides, export revenues of agricultural products hit 15.8 million USD, an increase of 35 percent against same period of last year. In the nine-month period, key importers mainly come from Asian countries, followed by the US, Australia, and African countries. Especially, the province’s farm products successfully entered tough markets like Japan, the US and the EU. Ninh Binh estimated that its export revenues for the whole year will fetch over 1.25 billion USD.-VNA … [Read more...] about Ninh Binh earns over 1.1 billion USD from exports in nine months