The rattan and bamboo processing industry should be developed on anindustrial scale in the future, said experts at a recent seminar heldby the Vietnam Wood and Forestry Product Association and theAgro-Forestry, Seafood Processing and Salt Industry Department.
Experts said the rattan and bamboo processing industry has thepotential to develop many kinds of consumer products on an industrialscale, according to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in the northernprovince of Son La.
Vietnam has 1.4 million hectaresgrowing bamboo trees and 30,000ha of rattan trees, mainly in Thanh Hoa,Lam Dong, Nghe An, Son La and Yen Bai provinces.
Experts said this large volume of material which could process many kinds of products for export and local consumption.
Demand for using of rattan and bamboo products has also increased on world markets, they said.
Nguyen Ton Quyen, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Wood and ForestryProduct Association, said Vietnamese exports of rattan and bambooproducts have had advantages due to their cheaper labour prices andproduction costs against other regional countries and traditionalproducts.
However, those products have faced competition from counterparts made by regional countries, said Quyen.
Local enterprises have lacked knowledge about fashions and demand forrattan and bamboo products in export markets, had lower outputs and hadno export strategies on large scales, he said.
Further, Nguyen Manh Dung, director of the Agro-Forestry, SeafoodProcessing and Salt Industry Department, quoted the Mekong BambooProgramme as saying that the world bamboo market reached 12 billion USDin 2009 and is expected to increase to 17 billion USD.
That is a good news for industrial bamboo processing enterprisesthroughout the world, especially firms in Vietnam and China, Dung said.
However, most local firms in the rattan and bambooprocessing industry are small-sized enterprises and have not had enoughcapital to update their technology and expand production, he said.
To enter the world market, local firms should change the structure oftheir operations by 2020, offering a mix of 30 percent traditionalproducts and 70 percent new products, the experts said.
With the new structure, the industry expects to take in 1 billion USDfrom exports, including 700 million USD from products that are processedon an industrial scale, they said.
The industry should also promote advertising and market research for products.
It should also develop support industries for the processing toincrease its value, quality and competitiveness of the product, theysaid.-VNA
Experts said the rattan and bamboo processing industry has thepotential to develop many kinds of consumer products on an industrialscale, according to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in the northernprovince of Son La.
Vietnam has 1.4 million hectaresgrowing bamboo trees and 30,000ha of rattan trees, mainly in Thanh Hoa,Lam Dong, Nghe An, Son La and Yen Bai provinces.
Experts said this large volume of material which could process many kinds of products for export and local consumption.
Demand for using of rattan and bamboo products has also increased on world markets, they said.
Nguyen Ton Quyen, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Wood and ForestryProduct Association, said Vietnamese exports of rattan and bambooproducts have had advantages due to their cheaper labour prices andproduction costs against other regional countries and traditionalproducts.
However, those products have faced competition from counterparts made by regional countries, said Quyen.
Local enterprises have lacked knowledge about fashions and demand forrattan and bamboo products in export markets, had lower outputs and hadno export strategies on large scales, he said.
Further, Nguyen Manh Dung, director of the Agro-Forestry, SeafoodProcessing and Salt Industry Department, quoted the Mekong BambooProgramme as saying that the world bamboo market reached 12 billion USDin 2009 and is expected to increase to 17 billion USD.
That is a good news for industrial bamboo processing enterprisesthroughout the world, especially firms in Vietnam and China, Dung said.
However, most local firms in the rattan and bambooprocessing industry are small-sized enterprises and have not had enoughcapital to update their technology and expand production, he said.
To enter the world market, local firms should change the structure oftheir operations by 2020, offering a mix of 30 percent traditionalproducts and 70 percent new products, the experts said.
With the new structure, the industry expects to take in 1 billion USDfrom exports, including 700 million USD from products that are processedon an industrial scale, they said.
The industry should also promote advertising and market research for products.
It should also develop support industries for the processing toincrease its value, quality and competitiveness of the product, theysaid.-VNA
