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26 September 2014 - Vietnam has witnessed a resurgence in its cassava exports since August 2014, but its cassava industry continues to face development challenges, experts said.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reported that cassava exports last August had tripled the production of previous months to 193,000 tonnes.
According to the MARD, however, in the first eight months of the year, cassava exports experienced a year-on-year reduction of 2.6 percent in volume to 2.26 million tonnes, and four percent in value to 729 million USD, because of a fall in cassava exports for the first seven months of the year.
In the first eight months of the year, China continued to be the largest export market for Vietnamese cassava, accounting for 85 percent...