Vietnam leads pepper exports

Vietnam leads pepper exports

(ICARD-12/05/06) The International Pepper Community (IPC) reports a sharp rise in Vietnamese pepper exports over the last three months. In the first three months of 2006, Vietnam exported 26,574 tonnes of pepper, an increase of 42 per cent against the same period last year. Vietnam now produced 60 per cent of the pepper exported worldwide. *

India has become one of the biggest importers of Vietnamese pepper. In March, the country imported about 1,902 tonnes of pepper from Vietnam, 87 tonnes of which was white pepper.