Vietnam, the world's top robusta exporter, estimated on Thursday its coffee export in the October-February period of the 2003/2004 season at 356,000 tonnes (5.93 million 60-kg bags), up 16.3 percent.
Vietnam shipped 306,000 tonnes in the same period in the previous 2002/2003-crop year. Its coffee crop year runs between October and September.
The government's General Statistics Office in a monthly report estimated that coffee shipment this month alone would jump 33.3 percent from the same month last year to 80,000 tonnes.
It revised down bean shipment in January to 74,000 tonnes, from a previous estimate of 80,000 tonnes, bringing the coffee exports in the first two months of this year to 154,000 tonnes, a rise of 17.9 percent year on year.
The earnings from coffee exports in the two-month period would also edge up 8.5 percent on a year to $101 million.
The Trade Ministry has forecast coffee exports in the first quarter of this year at 230,000 tonnes, valued at $165 million.
Vietnam earned $130 million from the export of 182,000 tonnes of beans in the first quarter of 2003.
On Thursday, Doan Trieu Nhan, chairman of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association, said the upcoming 2004/05-coffee crop would produce 11.5 million to 12 million 60-kg bags, about the same as the 2003/04 crop of 11.7 million 60-kg bags.
Exports were likely to be virtually unchanged at 11 million 60-kg bag this year, Nhan told Reuters on the sidelines of an international coffee conference in Bangkok.
Vietnam, the world's top producer and exporter of black pepper, estimated on Thursday it would ship 8,000 tonnes of the spice in the first two months of this year, up 36 percent from a year.
A report from the General Statistics Office estimated exports of the spice in February at 5,000 tonnes, up from 3,200 tonnes a year.
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