date:Dec 17, 2012
rom bananas (101.9 per cent), copra meal/cake (530.1 per cent), coconut oil (5.6 per cent), and fish products (15.7 per cent).
The growth in banana exports, which contributed about 1.2 percentage points to overall export increase, reflects positive expectations of global demand, specifically from China, which is seen to buy more food products due to the approaching winter season. Meanwhile, coconut oil exports mainly benefited from the robust demand of the countrys traditional foreign markets