The cashew sector expects to have a total output of 400,000 tonnes with value of 1.2 billion USD this year.

Pepper market was highly volatile on bearish and bullish activities in the futures market during the week and continued to decline despite a visible squeeze in supply of new and old pepper.

Thailand and Vietnam, the world’s two major rice exporters, will stabilize rice prices, which have been continuously decreasing during the last four weeks.

Viet Nam earned US$178 million from tea exports last year, a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said.