EU supports Vietnam to build sustainable pangasius supply chain
Thursday, March 30,2017AsemconnectVietnam - The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) coordinated with its partners to review a project establishing a sustainable Tra fish (pangasius) supply chain in Vietnam (SUPA) in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29.
Vice President of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology Tran Van Top said the four-year-old project has supported over 50 businesses, 120 breeding areas, 130 households, and 12 cooperatives as well as attracted nearly 3,000 people to its training programmes and technical workshops.
The project focused on training farmers in how to increase the rate of living fish and reduce feed costs and pollution, thus cutting production costs by 7-10 percent. It also helped 33 breeding regions and cooperatives to receive international sustainable aquaculture certificates.
Over 70 processing factories received training in cleaner production and energy saving, thus cutting electricity costs by 18-20 percent and water usage by 26-30 percent, and reducing over 21,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.
Coordinator of the SUPA project Le Xuan Thinh said the project has enabled Vietnamese tra fish export companies to create 20 new products to serve European customers.
Despite having a modern production chain and most breeding areas receiving international certificates and meeting quality criteria of such choosy markets as the EU and the US, Vietnamese tra fish industry still faces the problem of smear campaigns by foreign media, which has been occurring for nearly 10 years in many countries, especially in Europe.
Thinh said the problem persists due to the sector’s slow response and poor communication activities. The strong development of social networks also helps the adverse information spread quicker than ever among customers, while mainstream information is not readily available.
Responses in foreign languages, especially in import countries, are still limited, just only in Vietnamese and English, he added.
In fact, the demand for tra fish in Europe remains high. A survey conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 12 European countries unveiled that 86 percent of respondents said they know about tra fish products and one third of them reported to buy this product regularly.
Mag Karim, a WWF representative in Austria, said European customers are willing to pay high prices for sustainable and environmentally-friendly products. Therefore, Vietnamese tra fish sector should further improve quality of products and boost communication campaigns to change the awareness of European consumers, he suggested.
To put an end to the smear campaign of Vietnamese tra fish, the SUPA management board has proposed building a quick information response centre on seafood market in general and tra fish in particular.
Source: vov.vn
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