Mekong Delta exports over 600,000 tonnes of Tra fish in 2011

The Mekong Delta provinces recently exported 53,000 tonnes of tra fish, bringing the total export volume to 607,000 tonnes in 2011.

As a result, they earned more than US$1.67 billion, surpassing the set target of US$50 million.

In 2012, the Mekong Delta will use 5,440 ha of surface water to breed tra fish, mostly in the provinces of Dong Thap and An Giang, Ben Tre, and Vinh Long and Can Tho City. Each of these provinces will only develop high-productivity fish farming on 10 ha to avoid water pollution, and closely cooperate with breeders and processing factories to sign contracts on the consumption of fish. The whole year’s output of fish is expected to reach more than 1.2 million tonnes.

In 2011, apart from exports, these provinces created favourable conditions for tra breeders to expand their domestic consumption of diversified products, such as fresh and frozen fillets. They applied advanced technologies into breeding organic tra fish, preserving and diversifying processed products, and regularly informed farmers about the consumption trend of tra fish in both local and international markets.

These provinces also upgraded breeder establishments, providing 2.6 billion high quality fish and 3 million tones of feed to tra fish breeders.

To avoid the shortage of high quality varieties of tra fish, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) is implementing a plan to upgrade four centres to produce high quality tra fish in An Giang, Dong Thap, and Ben Tre provinces and Can Tho City

At the same time, the MARD will also build laboratories with modern facilities on quality control of fish for An Giang, Dong Thap, Vinh Long, Hau Giang, Soc Trang, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, and Tra Vinh provinces and Can Tho city.- VOV

Tags: Vietnam Tra fish exports

Posted by VBN on Jan 3 2012. Filed under Sea food. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry