As of August 15, 2014, the country cultivated 1,446,500 hectares of winter rice, equaling 98.6% from the same period last year, of which provinces in the North completed 1,179,100 hectares, equaling the figure in the same period last year; provinces in the South cultivated 267,400 hectares, equaling 92.7%.

As of mid-October, provinces in the North harvested 866,400 hectares of winter-rice, accounting for 73% of the cultivated area and equaling 102.3% compared to the figures in the same period last year. The winter-rice cultivated area in the South was 784,100 hectares, equaled 97.4% from the identical period in 2013.

As of mid-November, the country harvested 1,383,100 hectares of winter rice, equaling 93.8% from the same period last year, of which it was 1,169,100 hectares for provinces of the North, accounting for 98.9% of the cultivated area and attaining approximately the figures in 2013’s same period; it was 214,000 hectares for provinces of the South, equaling 70.4%.

Two months’ trade surplus achieved an estimate of US$ 244 million, equaling 1.2% of total export turnovers, of which trade surplus of the FDI sector reached US$ 2.09 billion while the trade deficit still belonged to the domestic economic sector with US$ 1.85 billion.

January’s s Industrial Production Index (IPI) was estimated to have a low increase of 3% compared to that in the same period last year, the reason for this, on the one hand, was the mining and quarrying’s deep decrease of 9.6% Generally, 2013’s consumption index of the manufacturing rose 10.1% from 2012.

For eleven months, there were 126.7 thousand newly established enterprises with a registered capital of VND 1,574.4 trillion and the registered labor of 1,137.1 thousand persons.