The Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment expects to import around 260,000 tonnes of salt tostabilise domestic consumption demand.
Vietnam is blessed with favourable conditions for the developmentof salt production, with its 3,000-km coast line as well as suitableweather and land, the ministry said. But natural disasters haveadversely affected salt production in recent years. Price fluctuationsalso prompted farmers to give up salt production, leading to animbalance in supply and demand.
Due to bad weather, salt output in Vietnam was only 800,000 tonnes in2009, a year-on-year decrease of 5 percent, even though the country’sarea for salt production has expanded by more than 16 percent to 14,400hectares.
Vietnam has imported salt in recent years from 138,000 tonnes in2007 to about 230,000 tonnes in each of the two most recent years.
The country’s salt consumption demand is currently 1.3 million tonnes a year./.
Vietnam is blessed with favourable conditions for the developmentof salt production, with its 3,000-km coast line as well as suitableweather and land, the ministry said. But natural disasters haveadversely affected salt production in recent years. Price fluctuationsalso prompted farmers to give up salt production, leading to animbalance in supply and demand.
Due to bad weather, salt output in Vietnam was only 800,000 tonnes in2009, a year-on-year decrease of 5 percent, even though the country’sarea for salt production has expanded by more than 16 percent to 14,400hectares.
Vietnam has imported salt in recent years from 138,000 tonnes in2007 to about 230,000 tonnes in each of the two most recent years.
The country’s salt consumption demand is currently 1.3 million tonnes a year./.
