Although exports of aqua-products faced many difficulties in 2011, export revenues touched US $6.1 billion, ranking Vietnam at fourth place in aqua-exports. In 2012, the country’s turnover of aqua-exports is expected to reach $6.5 billion, a target set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers. Early [...]
Local shrimp exporters are no longer concerned about material shortage this year as they have become more self-sufficient in material supply sources. Chu Van An, deputy general director of Minh Phu Seafood Corp., said his firm planned to expand its cultivation area by 200 hectares every year from the current 1,200 hectares in Kien Giang, [...]
The price of ocean tuna in the central region continues to be high at around VND170,000 per kilo as many local enterprises flocked to purchase the fish in the early days of the New Year. The lowest current price for tuna is VND115,000 per kilo and almost all fishing boat owners have made a profit. [...]
After nearly a month of fishing out at sea, hundreds of vessels have come ashore, bringing back hundreds of tonnes of tuna for export and domestic use. Dozens of trawlers anchored at Ward 6 and Dong Tac fishing ports, Tuy Hoa City, on January 23-24, the first two days of the lunar New Year, carrying [...]
Domestic shrimp exporters will boost their shipments to Asian markets this year as seafood consumption demand is forecast to surge in the region. The General Secretary of the Vietnam Seafood Exporters and Producers, Truong Dinh Hoe said China, Japan and the Republic of Korea will be promising markets for Vietnamese shrimp exports this year, with [...]
Vietnam was estimated to have reaped a total of $2.396 billion from shrimp exports in 2011, up 13.7% from 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said on its website on Jan 16th, 2012. Vietnam exported shrimps to 91 countries in the year. Of which, Japan market took the highest shares with $0.6 [...]
Vietnamese seafood industry, heavily dependent on fish farming, says it is confident of hitting its government’s export target of US $6.5 billion this year. Truong Dinh Hoe, general secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers, said the industry expected to earn $2.5 billion from shrimp exports alone because global demand, especially in [...]
In 2011, Vietnam’s top ten largest seafood exporters accounted for over 20% of the country’s total export turnover. Of which, six companies have strength in shrimp export and the remaining four firms specialize in tra catfish export, according to Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (Vasep). Minh Phu Seafood Group Joint Stock Co (coded [...]
Big institutions in the world all have predicted that the seafood demand would be very high in 2012, while the supply would be short. Therefore, Vietnam’s plan to increase the seafood revenue to 6.5 billion dollars from 6 billion in 2011 is within reach. Demand up, supply short According to FAO, seafood is the kind [...]
Big institutions in the world all have predicted that the seafood demand would be very high in 2012, while the supply would be short. Therefore, Vietnam’s plan to increase the seafood revenue to 6.5 billion dollars from 6 billion in 2011 is within reach. Demand up, supply short According to FAO, seafood is the kind [...]
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