The nation has made huge strides to avoid chemical contamination in seafood products in a bid to fight its way back into seafood importing markets after Japan’s June declaration to test 100% of imported seafood from Vietnam, The nation has made huge strides to avoid chemical contamination in seafood products in a bid to fight [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has just lowered its forecast on Vietnam’s seafood export turnover in 2011 to $6 billion, down $100 million from the previous forecast, due to raw material shortage and shrinking foreign demand, newswire NHDmoney reported. Although the demand for seafood products of EU, the US, Russia, China and Southeast [...]
Aquaculture has flourished in the central region in recent years, but is now encountering several problems, including a shortage of baby shrimp for breeding and polluted groundwater from inadequate waste treatment. Although farmers have dramatically increased their incomes, disease outbreaks among contaminated shrimp, particularly those that are purchased unquarantined, have caused mass deaths and polluted [...]
Customs procedures are being eased towards seafood material imports which are used to produce for exports. In light of Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) Official Letter 10612/BTC-TCHQ dated August 10, 2011, the ministry gave the nod to some proposals concerning raw seafood imports for export production the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) earlier [...]
Vietnamese seafood exporters now on the tenterhooks, because more and more European and American importers ask for lower prices or give up the contracts. Meanwhile, analysts have predicted worse situation towards the end of the year due to the public debt crisis in Europe and the US. Demand down, inventory up The tra fish export [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved a plan for developing breeding sea fish through 2015, with orientations for 2020. Under the plan, the output of sea fish raised in salt water and shrimp ponds is expected to reach 61,000 tonnes by 2015 and 98,000 tonnes by 2020. Sea fish raised in [...]
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