Dong Thap helps fish exporters amid lower demand during COVID-19
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dong Thap province is working with the Department of Industry and Trade to help fishery businesses enter countries that have signed free trade agreements with Vietnam as demand has fallen due to COVID-19.
Dong Thap province is focusing on helping fishery businesses with their exports, as COVID-19 continues to dampen foreign demand and fishery production. — (Photo: VNA)
Dong Thap (VNS/VNA) – The Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment of Dong Thap province is working with the Department of Industryand Trade to help fishery businesses enter countries that have signed freetrade agreements with Vietnam as demand has fallen due to COVID-19.
The province is also examining export activities to propose solutions toministries and authorities about exporters' problems.
Due to difficulty in selling their harvests, farmers are incurring losses of 1,000-6,500VND (0.04 – 0.28 USD) per kilo of fish.
Huynh Tat Dat, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, said that COVID-19 is affecting shark catfish exports, with theprice of raw catfish around 18,000-18,500 VND per kilo, which is 4,500 VND lessthan the same period last year.
The price may not improve in the second quarter of the year.
Most processing businesses are using much of their cold storage because rawmaterial sources remain abundant with fewer exports.
Fishling production is also facing difficulties due to slow consumption ofcommercial shark catfish, which has reduced the price of fishlings. Inaddition, farmers are not refilling their farms after harvests as much as theyusually do.
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Dong Thap province is focusing on helping fishery businesses with their exports, as COVID-19 continues to dampen foreign demand and fishery production. — (Photo: VNA) 
