Vietnam exports sugar to 28 markets
Vietnam exported 43,000 tons of sugar to 28 markets, earning more than US$20.6 million to the end of September, said Pham Quoc Doanh, President of Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association.
Major consumers of Vietnamese sugar products included China, Russia, the US, the Republic of Korea, the UK, Australia, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The largest domestic exporter is Bien Hoa Sugar JSC which shipped nearly 23,000 tons of sugar to Myanmar, China, Singapore, and India with an export value of more than US$12 million.
The country now has 41 sugar factories with a processing capacity of 150,000 tons of sugarcane per day. In the 2016-2017 crop year, these factories produced more than 1.236 million tons of sugar.
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