Export revenues of agro-forestry-fishery products in April is estimated to hit 3.5 billion USD, pushing the figure in the first four months of this year to 12.4 billion USD, equivalent to the figure recorded in the same period last year, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong has asked localities and enterprises to deploy measures to optimise opportunities for the shrimp sector to achieve the goal of 4.1-4.2 billion USD in export in 2019.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On April 1st, 2019, Minister, Chairman of the Office of the Vietnamese Government Mai Tien Dung issued the Decision No. 224/QD-VPCP on granting the Certificate of Merit to 7 Members of the Advisory Council for Administrative Procedures Reform of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, including Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam now ranks fourth globally, first in Southeast Asia and second in Asia in terms of exports of seafood, and its products are now available in over 170 countries and territories worldwide.

Domestic seafood enterprises, especially those from southern localities, will have excellent opportunities to boost official exports to China in 2019 thanks to the country’s reduction of tariff and aquaculture output due to environmental and production cost issues, heard a workshop in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on March 5.

The fisheries sector is aiming at 10 billion USD in the export of aquatic products in 2019, a year-on-year rise of 11 percent, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The new-issued Decision by Vietnamese Government stipulates three key species of fisheries industry including Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Penaeusmonodon and Litopenaeus vannamei.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has called for more efforts to push aquatic product export turnover to 10 billion USD in 2019.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang earned nearly 580 million USD from exports in the first 11 months of 2018, exceeding its yearly target by 11.3 percent, and representing a surge of 35 percent from the same period last year.

The total export value of agro-forestry-fishery products from January-November expanded 9.1 percent year-on-year to reach 36.3 billion USD.

Vietnam’s fishery sector should use more seafood by-products such as bones, heads and skin to add value to the industry, experts said at a recent forum in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has forecast that Vietnam’s total export revenue will grow 10-12 percent to hit a record of 239 billion USD for the whole year 2018, much higher than the set target of 214 billion USD.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The 4 products of the 4 members of VASEP including "Mangrove frozen black tiger whole shrimp" by Minh Phu Seafood Corp, "Kabayaki grilled pangasius fillets" by Vinh Hoan Corp; "CO Tuna saku" by Havuco and Sao Mai - "Ranee Premium Cooking Oil" by Sao Mai – IDI had won the " Vietnam Golden Rice 2018".

The agro-fishery-forestry sector earned 32.6 billion USD from exports during the January-October period, up 8.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Agro Processing Market Development Authority (AgroTrade) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.