Vietnam is estimated to reap the biggest-ever coffee export turnovers, nearly 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, in 2007, up 36.4 percent over 2006, local newspaper Pioneer reported Monday.

The country is estimated to ship abroad 900,000 tons of coffee this year, the paper quoted the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association as reporting.

Price of the local product is estimated to stand high in the remaining months of this year, at 1,500-1,600 dollars per ton, compared with 1,400 dollars in the first three months of this year.

Vietnam, the world's second biggest coffee exporter after Brazil, is diversifying coffee products for export, partaking more actively in international coffee trading floors, and applying more advanced farming and processing techniques.

Vietnam exported 656,000 tons of coffee worth 947 million dollars, mainly to the European Union, the United States, Japan and Singapore in the first four months of this year, posting respective year-on-year surges of 134.8 percent and 84.3 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office.

Source: Xinhua