Ending April, pepper exports reached 83,783 tonnes, worth $353 million, marking a decrease of 18.3 per cent in volume but an increase of 11.5 per cent in value year-on-year.
Bắc Ninh Industrial Parks attracted a total of US$997.1 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) capital and over VNĐ3.6 trillion in domestic capital in the first four months of this year.
The uncomfortable, even hazardous, heatwave currently gripping South-east Asia has some of Malaysia’s fruit farmers anticipating bountiful harvests in the coming months, but the output of the country’s key cash crop, oil palm, is expected to take a hit.