大米出口世界第二 越南农业和农村发展部在去年年底举行的会议中,预计越南1999年的农业(包括林业和水产业)产值将比1998年增长4.8％-5.1％,高于年初提出的3.5％-4％的计划指标。 这将是越南过去7年来最高的农业产值增长率,也是过去10年来农业产值增长率首次高于国内生产总值增长率。 据越南专家预测,在连续10年粮食生产获得丰收以后,越南1999年的粮食总产量再创历史新高,达3380万吨,比1998年增长 6.3％。 粮食增产带动白米出口增加。据越南贸易部有关人士透露,1999年头10个月,越南白米出口已达410万吨,提前超额完成了全年出口白米390万吨的计划。越南1999年全年白米出口预计可达450万吨。 在第二次世界大以前,越南曾是世界第三大白米出口国,后来由于长期战争,越南逐渐由白米出口国变成了白米进口国。 80年代实行革新开放政策以后,越南农业生产 Vietnam, the second largest exporter of rice in the world At the meeting held at the end of last year, Vietnam’s agricultural output (including forestry and aquaculture) is expected to increase 4.8% -5.1% over 1998, up from 3.5 % -4% of the plan target. This will be Vietnam’s highest agricultural output growth rate in the past seven years and the first time in 10 years the agricultural output growth rate has risen above the GDP growth rate. According to Vietnamese experts, after a decade of consecutive grain harvests, Vietnam’s total grain output hit another all-time high of 33.8 million tons in 1999, an increase of 6.3% over 1998. Increasing grain output led to an increase in white rice exports. According to sources from Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade, in the first 10 months of 1999, Vietnamese rice exports reached 4.1 million tons, surpassing the plan of 3.9 million tons of white rice exported in advance. Vietnam’s rice exports in 1999 are estimated to reach 4.5 million tons. Before the Second World Congress, Vietnam was the third largest rice exporter in the world and Vietnam later gradually changed from a white rice exporter to a rice importer because of the long war. After the introduction of the policy of reform and opening up in the 1980s, Vietnam’s agricultural production