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Sierra Leone seeks 50,000 tonnes rice from Vietnam
23.06.2011 10:28 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
A delegation from Sierra Leone
has held talks with Vinafood 2, Vietnams top rice exporter,
to import 50,000 tonnes of the grain, a government statement
said, as the southeast Asian nation seeks to boost
rice shipment to Africa.
The trade ministers of Sierra Leone and Vietnam signed a
memorandum of understanding on rice trading in Hanoi on
Tuesday, by which Vietnam hopes to sell more rice to African
nations, the Industry and Trade Ministry said in the
statement.
It gave no further details of the deal with Ho Chi Minh Citybased
Vinafood 2, which has been dealing mainly with the
Philippines Vietnams top rice buyer last year and
other Asina countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and
Bangladesh.
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