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.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will promote the application of advanced technologies in shrimp farming on large scale under its master plan on shrimp development until 2025.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The agriculture industry posted a year-on-year growth of 2.68 percent in the first quarter of 2019, despite an array of difficulties caused by the African swine fever and unstable export markets, mainly driven by the seafood and forestry sector.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In 2018, pangasius export to the US market reached US$549.4 million, up 59.5% over the same period last year.

(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).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) By the end of 2018, Vietnam's export of surimi grew well with the export value to major markets growing at double- digits.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) 2018 marked the success of the Vietnamese Pangasius industry as both farmers and exporters have achieved victory. It can be said that after a long time, Pangasius business has grown again. This result is due to the multiple factors, first of all the foundation from 2017 set the stage for the success of 2018. This is the first year in 20 years Pangasius has a spectacular growth in price, and the total turnover of the year reached US$2.26 billion, up 26.5% and was the highest ever. Besides, large import markets have seen positive changes with strong growth in export value of 15.6% - 50% ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he wishes that Chu Lai would strive to become a high-quality agro-forestry processing hub of the country to be able to meet huge demand in ASEAN, northeastern Asia, G7 and G20 countries.

Fifteen Vietnamese seafood exporters attended the Seafood Expo North America and Seafood Processing North America, the largest of its kind show in the North America, from March 17-19 in Boston, the US to seek new partners and expand export markets.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the last month of 2018, Vietnam's tuna export continued to grow. In 2018, Tuna export increased by 10% compared with 2017, reaching nearly US$ 653 million. Relative to 2017, the export growth rate to most major export markets was lower.