Vietnam exports 263,170 tons of tra in five months

The country exported 263,170 tons of tra catfish for $672 million during the first five months of 2011, increasing 4.7% in output and 24.7% in value as compared with the year earlier, Vietnam Association for Seafood Exporters and Processors (Vasep) reported.
The export of tra in Jan-June is expected to earn $800 million, a record figure in terms of year-on-year comparison.

In order to stabilize material area and export prices from July to the year end, Vasep’s freshwater fish committee had a meeting with 25 companies accounting for 70% of the country’s tra export volume.

Vietnam’s tra export price to US market is $3.3 per kilogram (for fillet trimmed) and $2.3 per kilogram (for fillet untrimmed). Also the kind of 850-gr weighed tra carries two levels of prices such as 26,000 dong per kilogram and 24,000 dong per kilogram.

Vasep wanted its members to have guidance on size of fish for farmers amid the shortage of some kinds of size, and proposed farmers to cooperate with tra producers and exporters in terms of market information. – Vietbiz24

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Posted by VBN on Jun 28 2011. 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