Salt production reaches 773,000 tonnes, up 76pct y-o-y

Minister of Industry and Trade lately revealed that in the first five months, Vietnam has imported 50,000 tonnes of industrial salt. The total salt volume that had been imported out of quota was 90,000 tonnes, causing effects on the domestic salt price.

The Ministry cannot decide the import quota for salt products, but still needs to cooperate with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance to work out the salt import quota before releasing to public.

The 2010 import quota of salt products was 260,000 tonnes, in which industrial salt counted for 180,000 tonnes and the rest 80,000 tonnes for health care and household usage.

In the first five months of this year, Vietnam has produced 773,000 tonnes of salt, equal to 176 percent against the same period of last year.

Tags: Vietnam salt, Vietnam salt production

Posted by VBN on Jun 14 2010. Filed under Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry