(vasep.com.vn) Business activity of many seafood enterprises reached deadlock due to many difficulties.
To survive and develop in the current situation, some enterprises are in an attempt to invest modern equipments, diversify products, boost production of value-added products to meet demand from importers.
Quoc Viet Co., Ltd in Ca Mau province for some recent years has invested modern equipments in processing value added products like breaded fried shrimp, cooked shrimp. Export turnover of these products accounts for 70 percent of the company’s total export turnover.
SAGIMEXCO located in Dong Thap province not only focuses on developing its key product (prawn crackers) but it also boosts others made by rice, drinks and ready to eat products such as rice vermicelli, rice noodle, rice stick. The export turnover of the company in the first 6 months of 2013 increased by 34 percent from the same period of 2012.
However, in times of economic backdrop, enterprises especially seafood ones can not generate high profit because it is hard for them to increase their prices.