Nguyen Viet Thang, President of the Vietnam Fisheries Society and head of the organising board, speaks at the press conference (Photo: baocantho.com.vn) Can Tho (VNA) – The MekongDelta city of Can Tho will for the first time host the VietShrimp, the fair on technologyin the shrimp industry of Vietnam, on March 25-27 next year.
The information was revealed by Nguyen VietThang, President of the Vietnam Fisheries Society and head of the organisingboard, at a recent press conference on the biennial event.
The VietShrimp 2020 is hoped to host morethan 200 booths of domestic and international businesses in the fisheriesindustry and the shrimp sector. Numerous symposiums will be arranged in thefair, he added.
Focusing on sustainable development of theshrimp industry, the fair will seek to bolster business connections andintroduce new farming technologies and advanced models in the hope of raisingquality and value of Vietnam’s shrimp sector.
The two previous editions of the event wereheld in the southern Bac Lieu province, which is home to about 120,000 hectaresof shrimp cultivation area.
After continuous declines in the firstmonths of 2019, overall shrimp exports also began to recover in July with anincrease of 13.4 percent and reached 334 million USD thanks to businesses’efforts to boost sales to such major markets as the US, China, and Australia.
Vietnam aims to earn 4.1-4.2 billion USDfrom shrimp exports this year, higher than the level of 3.6 billion USDrecorded in 2018, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development./.
The information was revealed by Nguyen VietThang, President of the Vietnam Fisheries Society and head of the organisingboard, at a recent press conference on the biennial event.
The VietShrimp 2020 is hoped to host morethan 200 booths of domestic and international businesses in the fisheriesindustry and the shrimp sector. Numerous symposiums will be arranged in thefair, he added.
Focusing on sustainable development of theshrimp industry, the fair will seek to bolster business connections andintroduce new farming technologies and advanced models in the hope of raisingquality and value of Vietnam’s shrimp sector.
The two previous editions of the event wereheld in the southern Bac Lieu province, which is home to about 120,000 hectaresof shrimp cultivation area.
After continuous declines in the firstmonths of 2019, overall shrimp exports also began to recover in July with anincrease of 13.4 percent and reached 334 million USD thanks to businesses’efforts to boost sales to such major markets as the US, China, and Australia.
Vietnam aims to earn 4.1-4.2 billion USDfrom shrimp exports this year, higher than the level of 3.6 billion USDrecorded in 2018, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development./.
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