Aquatic Newsletter No. E04 – 04/2021

No. E04 – 04/2021

The situation of Vietnamese shrimp market in the first 3 months of the year

          Generally, in the first three months of the year, total aquaculture production is estimated at 940 thousand tons, up 3.1% over the same period. Shrimp alone reached 122.7 thousand tons, up 4.8% over the same period; in which vannamei reached 73.5 thousand tons, black tiger shrimp reached 49.1 thousand tons.

Source: Sunjin – Aqua Marketing

          In terms of exports, the total value of shrimp exports in the first three months of the year was estimated at more than $600 million, up nearly 9% over the same period. In March alone, it increased by over 28% over the same period, which can be seen as a good signal from the impact of FTAs after a long time being affected by the epidemic and political tensions.

Source: Sunjin – Aqua Marketing

CIssues to be concerned about in the new season: Diseases – building disease prevention facilities in shrimp farming

          According to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as of March 15, the total damaged aquaculture area was more than 1,897 hectares, down 61% over the same period in 2020; in which, the damage on brackish water shrimp was nearly 1,713.5 ha, accounting for 90.3% of the total damaged aquaculture area and accounting for nearly 0.4% of the total shrimp farming area of the country.

          According to Mr. Nguyen Van Long, Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Health, in the first 3 months of 2021, shrimp diseases occurred with many different types of diseases. Mr. Long forecast that the shrimp farming area could increase sharply and the risk of disease in the coming time would be very high. The main reason is that dangerous pathogens are left in many farming areas that can invade and cause disease in farmed shrimp. In addition, adverse factors such as temperature, high salinity, rapid increase in environmental changes, and extremes can adversely affect shrimp growth, underdevelopment, and weak resistance. on the other hand, changing environmental conditions facilitate the development of pathogens, causing diseases for shrimp.

          According to Mr. Long, the shrimp farming industry in the past year, with an area of ​​more than 33,000 hectares of damage, could not determine the cause. This is because people and local officials do not organize to take samples of the disease to determine the factors that cause damage, so there is no way to thoroughly solve the problem for the people.

          Shrimp farming is increasingly focused, at present, to improve productivity and value, many scientific and technical advances have been applied, many successful farming models have been replicated. However, in the opinion of a shrimp farmer, management agencies need to tighten to control inputs in shrimp farming, especially seed and materials. This is the key to a successful farming. At the same time, in the context of increasingly complex climate change as today, mastering the change of environmental factors is very important to contribute to preventing epidemics from occurring.

          To accomplish this, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has developed and submitted to the Prime Minister for approval the National Plan to prevent and control some dangerous diseases and epidemics of farmed aquatic animals in the period of 2021 – 2025. According to Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien, this is an important legal basis for provinces and cities to allocate budgets and resources for implementation. On this basis, the provinces will allocate resources, build a team of aquatic veterinary staff to monitor disease prevention and control, thereby propagating for farmers to implement standard farming procedures. At the same time, gradually build biosafety farming areas to meet market requirements. On March 24, 2021, the Prime Minister signed and promulgated Decision No. 434/QD-TTg approving the National Plan for prevention and control of a number of dangerous diseases on farmed aquatic products, period 2021 – 2030.

Source: Vietnam Fisheries Magazine – No. 9(352)

Sunjin’s activities For the sake of shrimp farmers

1. New product meets practical requirements to help reduce the cost of shrimp farming – A-Ngon Product Line

New product “A – Delicious” with the following characteristics: Attractive food smell stimulates shrimp to catch prey (Attractive palatability); useful nutritional sources, nutritionally balanced diets and functional active ingredients ( Available nutrition); feed is produced from modern improved production lines (Advanced processing quality).

          In this April, the first tons of A – Delicious goods have arrived to customers. Sunjin sincerely thank customers for trusting and using our company’s products.

We are very happy to have received a lot of positive feedback from the first customers after receiving and using the new product A – Ngon. Many customers in Kien Giang area consider A – Ngon to be an economical product line, but the packaging design is very eye-catching, making customers feel the investment and care for the company’s products. In terms of quality, customers commented that the pellets had beautiful color, good solubility, aroma, and shrimp caught prey quickly. We hope that A – Ngon will bring good results for the farming crop and continue to receive the support of customers in the coming time.

1. Model shrimp farming model (Sunjin shrimp farm)

• Closed recirculation farming model (High-tech tarpaulin ponds and deep-water net-bottomed tarpaulin ponds)
  
• Total area: 40,000 m2;
• Shrimp farming area: 16,000 (40% of total area)
• Stocking density: average 250 fish/m2
• 90% expected survival rate
• Expected output/ha: 60 tons/ha/year (2 crops)
• Target FCR: 1.2

          This farming model is both a tourist attraction for Sunjin’s customers and partners, while also training the technical team, a team of Value Consultants to support and bring different values to existing partners and customers. Sunjin’s present and future.