HANOI: Vietnam’s coffee exports in the first three months of the year are estimated to have fallen 17% from a year earlier to 428,000 tonnes, while rice exports are seen down 30.4%, government data released on Monday showed.

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Coffee exports from Vietnam are estimated to have fallen 17% in the first three months of this year from a year earlier to 428,000 tonnes, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on Monday.

Coffee export revenue for Vietnam, the world’s biggest producer of the robusta bean, is seen down 11.3% to $771 million in Q1.

The country’s coffee shipments in March are estimated at 145,000 tonnes, valued at $275 million. Rice exports in January-March are estimated to have decreased 30.4% from a year earlier to 1.1 million tonnes.