August 24, 2011
India becomes Vietnam's top animal feed exporter
India became the biggest import market of Vietnam for animal feed in the first seven months of this year with US$363.94 million, rocketing 65.58% against the previous year.
Argentina ranked the second with US$266.97 million, down 26.12% on-year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said late Monday (Aug 22).
The US, Thailand, China and Indonesia followed with respective figures of US$139.44 million (-50.66%) on-year; US$68.08 million (+45.25%); US$59.6 million (+3.63%) and US$33.28 million (+51.82)
Vietnam spent US$1.36 billion on importing animal feed in the first seven months of this year, rising 0.5% from a year earlier, including US$188.6 million in July, down 5.04% from June.