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| PRICE OF GOLD & USD | (09/01/2010) |
| Gold (97%) | 2816 VND/chi | 2866 VND/chi |
| Gold (99%) | 2905 VND/chi | 2918 VND/chi |
| Dollar | 19480 VND/USD | 19500 VND/USD |
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| PRICE OF COFFEE | (09/01/2010) |
| R2B (R2,S13,5%) | 28700 VNÐ/Kg |
| R1C (R1,S16,2%) | 29100 VNĐ/Kg |
| R1A (R1,S18,2%) | 29300 VNĐ/Kg |
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| PRICE OF PRODUCES | (09/01/2010) |
| honey bee (Pure) | 55000 VND/kilogram |
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| Spend over 75 billion VND to propagate laws for rural people and ethnic minorities | The Prime Minister issued the Decision No. 72/2009/QD-TTg, approved the Project propagating laws for rural people and ethnic minorities from 2009 to 2012 under Program of propagating and educating laws from 2008 to 2012 of the Government.
In this project, the Government will spend 75.298 billion to propagate laws for rural people and ethnic minorities, to overcome the current limitations in propaganda of law for rural people and ethnic minorities; strengthen staff doing this work; implement effectively coordination among agencies propagating laws for rural people and ethnic minorities.
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| | | VICOFA will attend the International Coffee Conference in London in September | According to Vietnam Coffee – Cocoa Association of (VICOFA) in the time from 19 - 30/9/2009, VICOFA will organizes a regimentation of Vietnam enterprises to attend the International Coffee conference in London (UK) and participate in the survey promoting trade opportunities, meeting the coffee importers, the roasting firms and specialty associations, agencies, major associations in England and Germany. Mr.Luong Van Tu, VICOFA President, will lead the regimentation of Vietnam enterprises.
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| | | Coffee and Domestic Market |  | | Photo: C.L |
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| | | Cashew and rubber long for capital | Recently, The newspaper of DDDN has articles on agricultural enterprises difficult to access to capital. In fact, the research from industries of cashew and rubber in Vietnam shows that these enterprises not only have difficulty but also long for capital.
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| | | Pepper export in the first months of year | According to Vietnam pepper Association (VPA), in the quarter I of the year 2009, our country exported 27,075 tons of pepper with turnover of 65.9 million USD, up 93% of output and 31.8% in value compared with same period in 2008.
During 8 consecutive years (2001-2008) Vietnam has led the world in pepper export. In 2008, pepper export reached nearly 90,250 tons with the turnover of 310 million USD.
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| | | Netherlands lends hand to Viet Nam cocoa growers | The Netherlands has pledged to provide Viet Nam with financial and technical support to help the Viet Nam cocoa industry ensure its sustainable development.
Pursuant to a memorandum of understanding inked between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Viet Nam must designate an area to supply raw material for the industry and quickly build up the necessary labour force.
The deal was signed at a two-day seminar that ended late last week in HCM City.
As a result of the agreement, Viet Nam aims to emerge as a reliable global supplier of cocoa beans, particularly in Asia where supply falls far below demand, MARD affirmed during the seminar.
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| | | Coffee exports percolate past $2 billion mark | The export turnover of Vietnamese coffee during the 2007-2008 period exceeded US$2 billion, said Luong Van Tu, chairman of the Viet Nam Coffee Association (VCA), at a meeting held last Friday.
Tu also outlined concerns the coffee industry should heed for the 2008-2009 period.
There are currently 520,000 ha of coffee plantations in the country. Viet Nam exports coffee to 75 countries and territories, including Germany, the US, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Japan, Korea, France and the UK.
However, instant coffee, roasted coffee grounds and 3 in 1 coffee mixes from Viet Nam are mainly sold domestically and a few international markets, including Canada, Germany, the US, Australia and Korea.
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| | | Not concentrate and focus too much on tourism investment | That is the comment of experts on the status all people making tourism happening in most provinces in the country. Although the program of National Action on tourism for the period of 2006 - 2010 has been approved by the Government, identified tourism as a key economic industry, but the investment is too spread and lack of consistent management of the agency that will make tourism development unstable in environment and culture. Not including, if all local authorities consider tourism as key economic industries, unintentionally we overlook the development of other strong economic sectors.
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| | | “Headache” for exporting coffee | Viet Nam coffee and cocoa Association (Vicofa) recently held a meeting to summarize the coffee production - export for the crop year of 2007 - 2008. According to Vicofa, this is the 3rd consecutive crop year the coffee sector of Viet Nam reached export turnover of over 1 billion USD and this is the first crop with export turn of over 2 billion USD. This is considered to be a victory of the coffee industry, but interest rates is rising, prices of coffee are significantly reduced making the exporters “headache”.
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According to Vicofa, production crop of 2007-2008, as well as the general situation of other countries of exporting coffee in the world, production of coffee Viet Nam is not high. However, the country exported over one million tons of raw coffee with prices of 1,937USD / ton, turnover reached 2 billion USD.
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| | | Financial crisis cuts into tourism targets | Even though the peak tourism season is in full swing, the number of foreign tourists to Viet Nam has not increased, according to statistics by the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Tourists visit Bat Trang pottery village in Gia Lam District, Ha Noi. The country will likely miss its target for tourism this year.
Statistics show that the number of foreign tourists coming to Viet Nam from June to August decreased 15 per cent from the same period last year.
The trend continued in September, with only 315,000 overseas visitors in the country, 50,000 less than September 2007.
Most of the foreign tourists to Viet Nam in September came from China, Russia and Germany.
According to reports from several five-star hotels in HCM City and Ha Noi, not as many foreigners spent part of their summer holidays (from June to September) in Viet Nam as last year.
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