Vietnam's coffee export turnovers gained a year-on-year surge of 121.4 percent, reaching over 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of this year, partly due to higher world prices, according to the country's General Statistics Office Friday.

During the five-month period, the country shipped abroad 776, 000 tons of coffee, mainly to the European Union, the United States, Japan and Singapore, up 74.7 percent.

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.

The country exported 897,000 tons of coffee totaling 1.1 billion dollars last year, posting respective increases of 0.5 percent and 49.9 percent against 2005.

Source: Xinhua