Mekong Delta's exports target US$11.9 billion

The Mekong Delta region has set to gross US$11.9 billion from exports in 2015, according to Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region Nguyen Phong Quang.

The figure will include US$10.2 billion from rice and seafood, up 21% from a year earlier.

Regional localities will grow high-quality 3.3 million hectares of rice on 80 percent of the total rice fields to harvest an output of 25 million tonnes of paddy rice.

The committee reported that in 2014, the region’s total export value hit US$11 billion, US$0.7 billion higher than 2013’s figure.

Rice, aquatic products and garments were among hard currency earners of the region during the year with rice and aquatic products accounting for 81 percent of the region’s total revenue with US$8.9 billion, Quang said.

(Source: VOV)