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 By the end of November, the total agriculture sector’s trade surplus value gained US$ 8.2 billion, of which, US$ 5 billion came from fisheries– a new record up to now, said the Agricultural Deputy Minister Vu Van Tam at the meeting of National Steering Committee on brackish water shrimp’s disease prevention.

 A delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade made a working visit to Indonesia on July 6 to bolster trade co-operation between the two countries as well as to prepare for the birth of ASEAN Community in 2015.

 According to Tien Giang provincial Department of Industry and Commerce, the province's six-month total exports gained US$621 million, fulfilling more than 53.1 per cent of the year’s target. It is striving to fetch US$1.17 billion in export value by the end of this year, and US$1.3 billion in the year to come.

 A trade promotion program for introducing and polularising Vietnamese tra fish was jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa and the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg on May 22.

On the morning of 29th May, delegation from Central Economics Committee, led by Deputy Head of the Central Economics Committee Le Vinh Tan had a working session with the Steering Committee for the South-West region in Can Tho City on restructuring tra fish sector in Mekong Delta provinces

 Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have reiterated their determination to wrap up negotiation on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of this year, during the fifth round of talks which took place in Seoul from May 20-23.

 Tyson proposal comes two days after Pilgrim’s offers to buy Hillshire Brands

 A new report by Markets and Markets finds that the animalfeed micronutrients market will be worth $1,476.3 million by 2019.

According to the association of animal dusbandry of Dong Nai, the rice increase is temporary and the price might decrease next week. It, therefore, alerted farmers not to rebuild or increase production significantly in order to avoid a heavy loss.

 Country’s inability to meet domestic demand results in 6 million tons of imports. Turkey imported 6 million tons of animal feed, worth $3 billion, in 2013, due to the country's inadequate production to meet domestic demand, according to a report. Turkey is the seventh-largest country in the world in terms of agricultural production capacity

 Vietnam ag minister says country will also aggressively crack down on illegal poultry imports from China

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s fish production in 2013 was estimated to hit 6.05 million MT, up 2.1 percent year-on-year, including 2.71 million MT of capture production (up 2.2 percent) and 3.34 million MT of aquaculture production. 

(www.efeedlink.com) After China rejected two shipments of dried distillers grains (DDGS) last week due to the presence of an unapproved strain of genetically modified grain, prices for the by-product of corn-based ethanol fell by US $ 30/tonne on US export markets.

 Thị trường thực phẩm, nhất là heo hơi, sản phẩm gia cầm bất ngờ tăng giá khá mạnh. The price of food, especially pork and poultry products, highly increase by sudden 

(vasep.com.vn) So far, shrimp farmers in the Mekong Delta have reaped good yield with high selling shrimp price. 

(vasep.com.vn) Japan’s competent agencies are considering to raise maximum residue limits (MRL) for Ethoxyquin (ETQ) on shrimp originated from Vietnam to 0.2 ppm, 20 times higher than the current level of 0.01ppm. 

 Yossarin Boonwiwattanakarn Source: The Nation Disappointed in the domestic pork market, Charoen Pokphand Foods is now eyeing foreign markets for swine breeding, particularly Vietnam and China.