On December 19, the Vietnam Tra Fish Association, in association with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), organised a conference on developing markets and raising added-value for tra fish in the Mekong Delta. Truong Dinh Hoe, General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors, forecast tra fish export turnover will decrease about 5 percent in 2014 because domestic material source falls and credit tightening policy of banks makes it hard for businesses to access capital to invest in breeding area.
VCCI Director cum Deputy President of the Vietnam Tra Fish Association Vo Hung Dung stressed that the EU and US, two major markets of Vietnam’s tra fish blamed anti-dumping on Vietnamese enterprises and required more severe standards, while other markets saw little growth. These made tra fish businesses fall into difficulties.
Tra fish now rank second among Vietnam’s total seafood export turnover, after shrimp. Export turnover in the first ten months this year reached USD1.4 billion, a 0.5 percent reduction from the same period last year. Vietnamese tra fish have appeared in 149 countries and territories.
Tra fish breeding in the Mekong Delta covered on about 6,000 hectares in the 2008-2009 period, with output of nearly 1.2 million tonnes. From 2010 to now, the breeding area decreased 1.8 percent annually but output increased 2 percent, export turnover rose 5.8 percent./.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
