(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After the 2023 Lunar New Year, most workers at producing and processing agricultural and aquatic products factories have returned to work.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On the first working day after the Tet holiday, workers of Hung Ca Co.Ltd are busy preparing for an export order of 21 pangasius fillets (equivalent to 400 tons). The company’s leaders are very optimistic about the pangasius exports in the new year. In 2022, the company exports pangasius worthed about 350 million USD.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Thanks to the changing market structure and increase in deep processing, FIMEX VN, one of the mainstay shrimp exporters in Mekong Delta recorded high export revenue.

On December 30, 2022, Ministry Of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Circular No. 32/2022/TT-BNNPTNT: Amending circulars on assessment and certification of compliance with food safety regulations of agro-forestry-fishery food manufacturing and trading businesses under the management of ministry of agriculture and rural development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) At the meeting to summarize the agricultural sector in 2022 on the afternoon of January 10, the leader of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Soc Trang province, said that the total area of aquaculture in the province reached 75,355 hectares (freshwater, brackish water, salt water ), exceeding 0.47% of the plan (75,000 ha) and increasing 4.28% over the previous year. Total seafood production of Soc Trang province reached 352,763 tons, exceeding 0.22% of the plan (352,000 tons), increasing by 0.6% compared to the previous year (2,121 tons).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to SSI Securities Corporation (SSI), inflation in 2023 continues to be a challenge for Vietnam's seafood industry. In that context, the pangasius industry is expected to prosper when the largest export market, China, has reopened.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietcombank Securities (VCBS) believes that the US and China are attractive destinations for Vietnamese pangasius enterprises thanks to favorable factors such as reasonable prices in the context of inflation, 0% anti-dumping tax and the open market after COVID.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the price of raw pangasius and shrimp in the Mekong Delta provinces in December 2022 decreased slightly in the context of many difficulties.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s pangasius is increasingly being used by consumers in the world because of its convenience, neutral texture and taste, easy processing and affordable price that can fit every market segment. By 2022, Vietnamese pangasius has conquered more than 140 markets around the world, including markets with strict requirements on food safety and technical regulations such as the US, EU and markets that farmed fish used to be unpopular like Japan.

A pangasius festival organized by the People's Committee of Dong Thap Province in Hong Ngu Town last week attracted thousands of participants.