cassava effort DEVELOPMENT
International workshop sustainable development of Vietnam cassava recently by the provincial People's Committee and the Association of manioc (cassava) Vietnam organizations, many comments from industry leaders, speakers, businesses (DN) are focused on solutions to elevate the value of cassava from cultivating, processing and exporting.
Find stable output for cassava.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013, cassava growing area in Vietnam reached more than 544,000 hectares of fresh cassava yields averaged nearly 18 tonnes / ha and yield of 9.74 million tonnes. Cassava output current of 3.93 times increased Vietnam, productivity increased by 2 times compared to 2000, but compared to some Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, yield of cassava in Vietnam belongs to the low most.
Huynh Van Quang, Deputy Chairman, said Tay Ninh, Tay Ninh province have planted wheat acreage second Vietnam, but yield the highest annual water. 2014, Tay Ninh province has nearly 50,500 hectares of cassava, the total output of more than 1.6 million tons. In 2005, the average yield of cassava grown in Xining 24.7 tonnes / ha, in 2014 the average yield increased, reaching 31.6 tons / ha.
The country has 100 processing plants Xining cassava but has 72 plants with a total capacity of 5391 tons of flour design / day, while 1 processing plant starch from wheat premium capacity wet 30,000 tonnes of pulp / year.
Agricultural experts pointed out that the current Vietnam cassava low yield is due mostly grown on infertile soils, sandy soils while lower investment stages, much like tapioca already degraded but not The new varieties are replaced with high yield.
Mr. Nguyen Van lang- Association president said Vietnam-Cassava, cassava has high economic value and contributes significantly to the economy, bringing about considerable amount of foreign currency. Want resources from cassava, these companies need to invest more to planting, processing, environmental protection and export.
Representatives of cassava processing enterprises in Tay Ninh said the cassava processing factory in Xining but now many have small capacity, obsolete technology and operates mainly in the form of craft. To increase productivity and add value to the products after processing, the plant should be cooperation on infrastructure investment and has the support of "output" for the product.
Tran Cong from- home burn cassava farmers than 5 hectares in Ben Cau district share, want to raise the value of trees and cassava farmers to benefit part of this value necessarily build links Between processing plant with wheat farmers, can not always live scene "fair way" every man for himself strong and gradually proceeding to state potato grower price pressure. Problem finding "output" for cassava products is also interested speakers, especially trafficking activities with the Chinese market. Specifically Vietnam cassava export to China accounted for more than 2/3 of the output but many shipments went through the quota should be low-value trade receivables and higher risks in payment.
Cassava contributes a major part in the economy of our country but many local The present situation is still growing, processing, purchasing spontaneous form.
In the Central Highlands and South East, many years whenever the price of cassava farmers quit sugarcane, corn, cassava planting beans. Do not grasp grown but "output" (purchasing power on the market and selling price) should have but cassava cultivation in Dong Nai, Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc give no harvest rot. As soon as this point in Xining fresh cassava prices have fallen sharply, causing some farmers to restlessness. Currently the price of fresh cassava only around VND2,000 / kg, down 700 dong / kg over the same period last year and always at low prices.
