The country is estimated to export about 250,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, earning US$ 1.8 billion for the year.
According to the Vietnam Customs, the imported volume of material cashew nuts as by mid-December was 632,000 tonnes, worth nearly US$592 million, doubling the figure in the same period last year.
Most imported volume of material cashew nuts are used for producing products for export.
Under a draft Project on Vietnamese cashew sustainable development by 2010 declared by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recently, the cashew industry targets revenues of over US$ 2.5 billion by 2020.
