The price of Tra fish increases, farmers have interest
Update: (4/13/2010)
Central Association for Domestic fisheries told the prince of Tra catfish, basa in the provinces of Cuu Long River Delta (Mekong Delta) continued to increase strongly, the variation in the 16,000 to 16,500 VND per kg
This is the highest price within the last one year. With this price, ensuring farmers started with interest.
The main reasons causing the price of raw ingredient as high as the
current is due to the strong recovery of some key export markets such
as Russia, Spain, and the United States. In addition, the amount of
inventory of enterprises decreased, due to concerns about lack of raw
materials in the next few months, which makes the acceleration of
enterprise purchasing new fish. Meanwhile, the supply is limited due to
condensation problems exist from several months ago makes people narrow
area of fish released. As forecast, from April of 2010, production of
Pangasius in the Mekong Delta to the harvest period will increase
again, prices will likely hypothermia.
Currently, price in some provinces in the Mekong Delta continue to hold
steady. In particular, the price of the 2cm per fish remains at 700 VND
per one, the kind of 2.5 cm is 1250 VND per fish. Meanwhile, feed price
in the domestic market continues to rise, prices of rice bran in An
Giang has increased 50 VND per kg.
THUY HIEN
Source: Can Tho Newspaper
