VN listed as top 10 seafood exporters
VGP – Việt Nam’s seafood products have penetrated in 160 countries and territories, making the country as the tenth largest seafood exporter in the world, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vũ Văn Tám.
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Under the seafood processing development plan, said the Deputy Minister, by 2015, Việt Nam will attain a US $6.5 billion export turnover and churn out over 1.6 million tons of processed seafood for export. By 2020, the country will earn US $8 billion from shipping seafood, he added.
In 2009, Việt Nam had 396 seafood-processing firms with the total productivity of 7,870 tons per day and night.
Mr. Tám pointed out some difficulties such as the imbalance of supply-demand and unstable consumption markets.
He said that in order to develop the sector sustainably, it is necessary to pursue a seafood processing plan which is based on full researches on provision of raw materials, productivity, markets, and conditions for future development./.
By Kim Anh
