The seafood enterprises are asked to improve the quality of theirproducts to meet demands required by customers in big markets, a recentconference has heard.
Addressing the conference on seafoodconsumption trend in big markets and enterprises’ socialresponsibilities held in Can Tho on December 12 by Swiss GSG Group,Nguyen Hoai Nam, Deputy Secretary of the Vietnam Association of SeafoodExporters and Producers, said that the seafood industry was facing anumber of difficulties and challenges.
Thosechallenges are the growing local seafood production cost, low qualityvarieties, problems in planning and implementation, commercial lawsuits,weak connection in the industry, and inadequate and inefficientpolicies relating to value chains, Nam said.
For bigmarkets such as the United States, the European Union and Japan, thebiggest challenge is consumers’ growing demand for products produced insustainable ways and certificates of origin of the products, he said,adding that enterprises must compete via the quality products.
Tran Huu Hiep, head of the Economic Department under the SteeringCommittee for Southwest Region, said that big opportunities are lyingahead as the ASEAN Economic Community is formed in 2015 but askscompanies to boost both their product quality and competitiveness toseize the chance.
According to the VASEP, the seafood industryhas exported to 165 markets with an estimated total export value of 7.94billion USD in 2014, up 18.2 percent from last year and makes thecountry the world’s fourth biggest seafood exporter.
On thisoccasion, the GSG launched its office, the sixth of its kind in Vietnam,in Can Tho to provide assistance in certification, verification,inspection, and testing for enterprises in the Mekong Delta region,especially seafood processing and export enterprises.-VNA
Addressing the conference on seafoodconsumption trend in big markets and enterprises’ socialresponsibilities held in Can Tho on December 12 by Swiss GSG Group,Nguyen Hoai Nam, Deputy Secretary of the Vietnam Association of SeafoodExporters and Producers, said that the seafood industry was facing anumber of difficulties and challenges.
Thosechallenges are the growing local seafood production cost, low qualityvarieties, problems in planning and implementation, commercial lawsuits,weak connection in the industry, and inadequate and inefficientpolicies relating to value chains, Nam said.
For bigmarkets such as the United States, the European Union and Japan, thebiggest challenge is consumers’ growing demand for products produced insustainable ways and certificates of origin of the products, he said,adding that enterprises must compete via the quality products.
Tran Huu Hiep, head of the Economic Department under the SteeringCommittee for Southwest Region, said that big opportunities are lyingahead as the ASEAN Economic Community is formed in 2015 but askscompanies to boost both their product quality and competitiveness toseize the chance.
According to the VASEP, the seafood industryhas exported to 165 markets with an estimated total export value of 7.94billion USD in 2014, up 18.2 percent from last year and makes thecountry the world’s fourth biggest seafood exporter.
On thisoccasion, the GSG launched its office, the sixth of its kind in Vietnam,in Can Tho to provide assistance in certification, verification,inspection, and testing for enterprises in the Mekong Delta region,especially seafood processing and export enterprises.-VNA
