Asked if the target had been revised down, Minister Cao Duc Phat told Reuters: "No, it stays at that level." 

The export price of Vietnam’s 5% broken rice is currently hovering around US$370 per tonne, up US$30 compared to April, according to Pham Van Bay, vice president of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

 The Mekong Delta provinces will export 600,000 tonnes of tra fish in 2010, worth 1.5 billion USD, up nearly 160 million USD over the previous year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Viet Nam exported 23,000 tonnes of pepper worth nearly US$66 million in the first quarter of this year.