Vietnam Nov coffee exports down 37.5% y/y, rice up 6.8%

HANOI - Vietnam exported 70,000 tonnes of coffee in November, down 37.5% from a year earlier, government data released on Sunday showed.

The country's coffee exports in the January-November period fell 3.9% from a year earlier to 1.41 million tonnes, the General Statistics Office said in a statement.

Vietnam's rice exports in November rose 6.8% from the same month last year to 388,000 tonnes, the GSO said. Rice shipments in the first 11 months of this year fell 2.2% from a year earlier to 5.74 million tonnes.

(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by William Mallard) ((khanh.vu@thomsonreuters.com; +84 24 38259623;))