HANOI, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam's rice exports in the January-October period are estimated to have risen about 17% from a year earlier to 7.1 million metric tons, government data showed on Sunday.

Revenue from rice exports in the period is seen up 34.9% at $4 billion. October rice exports from Vietnam, one of the world's leading shippers of the grain, were estimated at 700,000 metric tons, worth $433 million. (Reporting by Phuong Nguyen; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)