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Update news meat import
Vietnam imported over 79,700 tons of meat and meat products worth US$250.9 million from India in the first half of 2022, making the latter the former’s largest meat supplier, according to the Import-Export Department.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has asked rice traders to strictly maintain a reserve equivalent to at least five percent of their export volume in the six most recent months.
Vietnam imported nearly 66,000 tonnes of meat in the first two months of this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The volume of pig, chicken and pork imports has soared recently. Buyers and sellers conduct transactions easily online.
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese are now buying more Japanese beef, US chicken and Australian lamb for their family meals, putting pressure on the domestic animal husbandry industry.
VietNamNet Bridge - The meat market in the country, estimated to have value of $18 billion, is controlled by enterprises from France, Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam.
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam spent more than US$556 million to import nearly 480,000 tons of meat of all kinds in January-October of 2015, an increase of $150 million compared with the entire year in 2014.
VietNamNet Bridge - If this volume of outdated beef was not detected, it would have been distributed to restaurants and factory kitchens.