India May oilmeal exports surge, Vietnam buys jump

NEW DELHI, June 9 (Reuters) - India's May oilmeal exports doubled from the same month a year earlier to 473,375 tonnes as purchases by Vietnam rose sharply, a leading trade body said on Monday.

Exports in the first two months of the fiscal year to end-March 2009 rose 66 percent to 1.11 million tonnes against 671,084 tonnes in the year-ago period, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India said in a statement.

Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan remained among the leading importers of Indian oilmeal. (Reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj, Editing by Mark Williams)