(vasep.com.vn) Can Tho University has hold a workshop “Developing production of agricultural and aqua products towards cleaner production”.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) plans to undertake a pilot national single window (NSW) system in Vietnam in the coming time. The new system is welcomed by many Vietnamese enterprises to reduce the complexity of current administrative system.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) has underlined its status as a key trade and investment partner of Vietnam with 187 projects worth 667 million USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the southern province of Dong Thap to better exploit its farming and aquaculture resources to achieve more rapid and sustainable development.

The Russian government is considering tightening control over the export and import prices for fish and seafood. Customs duties will be reduced from 1 September, as part of Russia's obligations to WTO accession. However, the government at the same time hopes to tighten price controls by establishing a center that will monitor global prices; and adjust customs duties based on the "real" value, rather than the nominal import value.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government may soon place a total ban on the importation of fish and other aquatic consumables.

(vasep.com.vn) Ca Mau, a province in Mekong Delta, targets to reach US$1 billion of total seafood export value in 2013. To fulfill this, the province is taking strategic measures focusing on expanding seafood importing markets, solving financial difficulties. Among them, finding more markets for seafood products is considered as the top priority.

(vasep.com.vn) On September 9th, 2013, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh, held a meeting with the Japanese delegation led by the President of Japan Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council.

(vasep.com.vn) On September 9th, 2013, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh had a working meeting with Belgian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Bruno Angelet, on establishing an aqua-products distribution and auction centre in Zeebrugge port, Belgium.

(vasep.com.vn) Asia Foodstuff Import Export Co., Ltd (Asia) said that the company's value-added seafood products occupied larger market shares in foreign countries. Focus on value-added products was a measure to help the company solve difficulties due to short supply of raw materials, especially shrimp and mollusks.

Singapore’s seafood firms have been busy this year opening new markets, with trips to China, Burma and India in the past year to source and sell seafood.

(vasep.com.vn) Mekong Delta provinces are sustainably developing the fishery industry to reach goals by 2020. The superficies for aquaculture will reach 1 million hectares, providing total production of 2.5 million MT, including 450,000 MT of shrimp.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam seafood exporters hope that processed and value-added seafood products exported to South Korea will enjoy lower duty rates thanks to free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and South Korea being negotiated by the two countries.

(vasep.com.vn) By 2015, the project will bring the aquaculture area of 1.1 million hectares, aquaculture production of 3.6 million MT with the export turnover up to US$3.5 – US$4 billion and create jobs for 3 million workers.

The contest “Golden Hands in Fish Processing Industry of Dong Thap 2011” was held in Sa Dec industrial park by Dong Thap Labor Union and other provincial departments including Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Trade and Industry, the Management Board of the provincial economy.