Vietnam targets 10 billion USD from aquatic product exports in 2019

Vietnam targets ten billion USD from aquatic product exports in 2019
December twenty seven, 2018, 08:22 AM
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has immersed additional efforts to push aquatic product export turnover to ten billion USD in 2019.

Addressing a recent conference to review the sector’s performance in 2018 and launch tasks for 2019, Minister Cuong asked the world to extend its production worth by four.25 % with total productivity of seven.9 million tonnes.

Besides, the board of Fisheries was requested to specialise in implementing the Law on Fisheries and developing the world in line with designing.

In 2018, export turnover of aquatic merchandise hit nine billion USD, a year-on-year increase of eight.4 percent.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien same Vietnam recorded its highest workplace production ever in 2018 with seven.74 million tonnes, up 7.2 % year-on-year.

Export revenue of tra (pangasius) fish saw breakthrough growth, hitting 2.26 billion USD, up 26.4 percent.

Exports of food additionally powerfully multiplied, with tuna shipments reaching 675 million USD (up thirteen.9 percent), different fish teams – one.52 billion USD (up fifteen.5 percent), and also the molluscous cluster – 785 million USD (up nine.1 percent).

Tran Dinh Luan, Vice General Director of the board of Fisheries same Vietnam’s cultivation space in 2018 was one.3 million hectares, up vi %.

2018 was a prosperous year for the Vietnamese pangasius fish business, with its cultivation space touching five,400 ha, up 3.3 % compared to 2017.

Farming areas and process plants of pangasius fish in Vietnam have received praise from scrutiny delegations from the U.S.A. Department of Commerce, creating it easier for the merchandise to access the U.S.A. market.

For the shrimp business, within the context of a pointy call material shrimp worth in late could, the board of Fisheries counseled shrimp farmers fits technical customary and took to worth chains to scale back risks.

Regarding offshore fishing, Vietnam has ninety five,847 fishing ships, with 98.6 % wooden-shell fishing vessels. a complete eighty two fish ports area unit operative in twenty seven coastal provinces and cities nationwide, whereas fifty eight storm shelter areas were in-built twenty four provinces and cities with most capability of forty two,464 fishing boats.