Seafood producer granted GlobalGAP, IFS

The Sai Gon-Mekong Co. Ltd has been granted the Global Good Agricultural Practice (GlobalGAP) accreditation for farmed aquaculture products and the International Food Standard (IFS) certificates.

Sai Gon-Mekong is Vietnam ’s eighth enterprise to receive these accreditations. In addition, the US Chamber of Commerce has granted the enterprise a zero percent anti-dumping tax on tra fillet to the US market.

Sai Gon-Mekong company got the GlobalGAP for 15 ha of 30 ha of tra farming areas of the company in the southern city of Tra Vinh . Those farms have an output of 7,000 tonnes of products.

To develop the success of Sai Gon-Mekong, relevant agencies in Tra Vinh are coordinating with districts to help 150 tra farming enterprises and households to register for seafood origin and apply clean farming technology to meet export standard.

At present, Tra Vinh has about 100 ha of water surface along the Hau and Tien rivers for growing tra fish for exports, yielding an output of more than 16,000 tonnes with an export turnover of 4 million USD.

The locality plans to expand its acreage for tra farming to 2,900 ha by 2015 and to 3,900 ha by 2020 with an output of 248,000 tonnes. – Vietnam+

Tags: Global Good Agricultural Practice, International Food Standard, Vietnam Seafood, Vietnam seafood exports

Posted by VBN on Aug 10 2010. 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