Ca Mau seafood exports to reach $850 million in 2011

The southernmost province of Ca Mau hopes to increase seafood exports by 11.8 per cent next year to US$850 million, local officials said.

To achieve the target, the province will tackle the current raw-material shortage by zoning 10,000 ha for breeding tiger prawns by 2015.

By next year it will also expand the area under prawn farming from1,500ha to 2,800ha.

It will also continue to promote various prawn-farming models like extensive farming and rice-shrimp cultivation, organic farming, and others, and advanced technologies to increase output.

Ca Mau is home to 34 seafood processing plants with a total capacity of 150,000 tonnes a year, 31 of them specialising in prawns.

Most of them use modern technologies that match international standards and trade with partners in 40 countries and territories.

While continuing to focus on key products and key markets, the province also hopes to diversify its export markets, products, and trading methods.

For the purpose, next year it will continue to explore new markets, especially those that import a large variety of seafood products.

Processing plants’output this year was 93,000 tonnes, an increase of 10.5 per cent over last year, with shrimp accounting for 83,000 tonnes.

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