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Tra catfish export estimated to reach over $1.55b in 2011

Vietnam’s tra catfish export is expected to fetch $1.55 billion in 2011. This is target set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at the meeting held in the southern province of Can Tho recently.

In 2010, European Union (EU) was still Vietnam’s biggest tra catfish buyer with 202,000 tonnes worth $462 million (Spain, Germany and Netherlands…), accounting for 36 percent of the country’s total export turnover of tra catfish together with other large markets such as the US, Russia and Mexico.

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