On the morning of November 25, in Nha Trang city, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinated with the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa province to organize an online forum on the current situation of supplying seeds, feed, and materials for marine aquaculture; traceability of product origin and solutions for sustainable development of marine aquaculture in Vietnam.
According to the report of the Department of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Vietnam has over 1 million km2 of exclusive economic zone, while the marine farming area only accounts for about 20% of the total aquaculture area of the country. In 2022, the marine farming area of our country will reach over 256,000 hectares, with an output of nearly 750,000 tons; in 2023, the output could reach nearly 800,000 tons.
Marine Farming Forum held in Khanh Hoa.
In recent times, the Government, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have issued many policies and programs to promote the development of marine aquaculture. Thanks to this, some supporting units for the marine aquaculture industry have been initially formed in Vietnam, such as infrastructure for seed production areas, concentrated farming areas; supporting industries (feed, farming equipment); processing industry, and development of consumer markets.
At the forum, delegates, representatives of seafood farming households, cooperatives, and enterprises shared many difficulties and challenges in developing marine aquaculture; focusing on a number of issues such as the psychology of seafood farmers still being afraid of administrative procedures related to the environment, and the current complicated allocation of sea areas.
While planning and implementation are slow, spontaneous farming activities and violations of planning are still common, leading to environmental pollution and difficulty in selling products...
In particular, since August, China has issued new regulations that have caused export congestion. Accordingly, China requires that lobsters must have clear evidence of the farming process; and that wild-caught sources of seed must not be used (seeds must be F2 generation).
Mr. Le Ben, Vice President of the Vietnam Seafarming Association, said that from the story of the export of spiny lobsters, it can be seen that the requirements of the world market are increasingly high. Goods not only have to meet customers' requirements on quality, food safety, and origin, but some markets are moving towards emission declaration requirements, and products that emit large amounts of greenhouse gases will be taxed very highly.
Mr. Ben emphasized that if businesses do not prepare now, we will certainly be eliminated from the game.
According to Mr. Tran Dinh Luan, Director of the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, to solve the problem of developing sustainable marine farming raw material areas, enterprises need to build a close chain of links with production cooperatives in the form of enterprises taking care of product output, farming facilities (enterprises, cooperatives, associated households...) taking care of raw material production. Both sides must work together and control each other to ensure the quantity, quality of products and traceability information.
Concluding the conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien proposed to organize implementation, guide, inspect and supervise localities in performing the tasks assigned by the Prime Minister in Decision 1664/QD-TTg dated October 4, 2021 on approving the project on developing marine aquaculture to 2030, with a vision to 2045.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien spoke at the Forum.
Regarding the removal of difficulties for the lobster market, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said that while waiting for China to provide information and new registration forms, the Department of Fisheries will coordinate with localities to organize guidance and direct organizations and individuals participating in the lobster value chain to strictly implement the provisions of the 2017 Fisheries Law.
Specifically, conditions for aquaculture; confirmation of registration for cage farming; licensing of aquaculture at sea; confirmation of the origin of aquatic species listed in the appendix of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and endangered, precious and rare aquatic species originating from aquaculture for farmed spiny lobsters.
After the Chinese side provides sufficient information and a new registration form, the organization will review, verify and complete the list of lobster farming facilities exporting to China that meet the regulations of Vietnam and China and transfer it to the Department of Quality, Processing and Market Development to send to the Chinese side.
Huong Giang (VOV1)
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