HANOI (Commodity Online) : Vietnam’s rice exports reached 6.45 million tones till November 20 this year, said Vietnam Food Association (VFA).  In a statement issued here the VFA said over 5.573 million tones of rice have been delivered, gaining $2.256 billion in line with the FOB price. Especially, within the first 20 days of November, the enterprises have exported only 201,740 tonnes for contracts with due delivery time, earning $83,376.

The rice export price is reported to increase day-on-day for the newly signed contracts.

At the beginning of this week, the price of 5 percent broken rice is posted at $500 per tonne, up $40 against that of previous week.

Vietnam is one of the world’s trop rice exporters.