{"id":4276,"date":"2012-02-28T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2012\/02\/28\/vietnam-approves-master-plan\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:18:00","slug":"vietnam-approves-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/vietnam-approves-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam approves master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Vietnam exported fish products worth US$6.1 million, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Output of white-legged shrimp and tra fish totalled 200,000 and 1,300,000 tons respectively, helping export revenues increase 21% on 2010\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p>This plan aims to raise agro-forestry exports to US$40 billion by 2020 and is based on annual growth of 3.4-4% for the farming, forestry and fisheries sectors. It will also see over one million hectares of land reclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s fisheries production reached 364,200 tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%. Aquaculture production was 172,000 tons, up 6.5% compared with the same period last year, while seafood catch dropped by 1.4% to 192,200 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Seafood exporters themselves are warning of a tough 2012 as the industry battles challenges.<\/p>\n<p>These include a shortage of working capital and raw materials for processing, a fall in overseas demand especially in the EU and costly quality inspections, said Tran Thien Hai, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam\u2019s agricultural sector will export fisheries products worth US$11 billion by 2020 under a master plan approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, official media have reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}