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Myanmar's agricultural exports earn over 358 mln USD

Xinhua News,YANGON
2020-11-16 13:55

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YANGON, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar earned over 358 million U.S. dollars from agricultural exports in over first month of present fiscal year (FY) 2020-2021 which started in October, according to figures released by the Commerce Ministry on Monday.

This fiscal year's agricultural exports saw an increase of over 42 million U.S. dollars, compared to the same period of last fiscal year 2019-2020 when it registered over 315 million U.S. dollars, the ministry’s figures said.

As of Nov. 6 of this fiscal year, the country earned over 1 billion U.S. dollars from the total exports.

Rice and broken rice, pulses and beans and maize are the main items of export in the agricultural sector while fruits and vegetables, sesame, dried tea leaves, sugar and other agricultural products are also exported to other countries.

Myanmar mainly exports agricultural products to China, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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