International certified products plays an important role in some markets due to its reliability. However, international certificates just facilitates the bussiness at openning time meanwhile quality is the critical factor.
In the whole of the Tra fish product chain, which was built for crisis overcoming, incubation is the first stage and plays the most important role. As the quality of Tra fish material will decide the quality of the whole chain, no faults in this stage can be corrected later. Decree 36 stipulates the aquaculture planning as the first priority.
Many hold that the first step for successfully restructuring Vietnam’s Tra fish industry is to improve the Tra fry quality and to apply advanced farming technology.
Why have Vietnam Tra and Basa fish products unceasingly been subject to anti-dumping duties? Is it because the US has not recognized Vietnam as a market economy or is it the fate developing countries, including Vietnam, must accept when joining in the free-trade playground in which the US overwhelms?.
To enhance added values for Tra fish products, attention should be paid not only to the processing but also right from the farming, especially the selection of fries and feeds and breeding techniques.
International Development & Investment Corporation (IDI) is one of the businesses developing with a modern model in the fisheries sector. Always orienting science and flexibility, and closely following the market, IDI has step by step developed steadily and had promising breakthroughs in which Tra fish oil products are considered as a new revolution.
Vietnam’s Tra fish was once a “gold” product that brought considerable profits to the Mekong Delta; but now it is facing difficulties without exit in sight. In 2014, can enterprises take advantage of the opportunity to break out?
Many Tra fish enterprises have invested in the improvement of the fish farming area actively, aiming at the stable supply of raw material for production. The special issue Vietnam ‘s Tra, Basa has an interview with Ho Van Vang, Vice President of the Vietnam Tra Association on this problem.
From mid-March 2014, the price of Tra fish has continuously increased, but farmers are not excited. Some people asserted that the price is rising because of the virtual fever in the market.
At the end of March, 2014, the price of Tra fish increased to 25,000 – 26,000 VND/kg, so the small farmers made a profit of 4,000 VND/kg. However, many people do not have captial to farm fish because processing businesses appropriate it and they have difficulties accessing bank loans.