Cassava export: Paradox billion

Manioc (cassava) is currently the major industrial plants and collect billions of dollars each year through exports. However, profit focused on traders, farmers remain poor potato.
Worries of cassava growers are being season but fell

CongThuong - In the southern province of tapioca are at the end of the harvest, prices have edged up VND 4,300 / kg, top service high (lunar January) 300-500 / kg. In Dong Nai, cassava farmers appreciated but not happy to have sold for as low as potatoes harvested.

Tran Van Tuan - 3 acres farmers growing cassava (Gia Canh, Dinh Quan District, Dong Nai Province) - said cassava offered price but before Tet occasion several partners traders forced low, even do not buy that pile potato harvest. "Farmers know only grown and sold, about the price and the market traders employed by all" - Tuan urgent.

Vietnam now has more than 560,000 hectares of cassava plantation, producing about 9.4 million tons / year, 30% is used for food, animal feed, pharmaceutical, ethanol, industrial alcohol, 70% of export border.
Tay Ninh province has an area of approximately 45,500 hectares of cassava production 1,317,671 tons, but potato growers are still poor. According to Tran Thi May, the collection bowl of tapioca (the town of Ben Bridge, Tay Ninh province), in the south of the existing chips, but big traders manipulating the market price of tapioca from purchasing and exporting doubles. Ms. May said, although his longtime partner, but many potato warehouse milestone for lodging the export traders buy hard not to depress prices further.

Vietnam to export cassava second most in the world after Thailand, the main market is China, Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan, which China imports to 85.6% of total cassava production in Vietnam border. In 2012, Vietnam exported over 4.2 million tonnes of cassava and cassava products, collected $ 1.35 billion, an increase of over 57% and nearly 41% in value compared with 2011. 2013, export more than 3.1 million, collected more than $ 1.1 billion, down 25.7% and 18.6% respectively,

In the past few years, the market of cassava in southern evolving rapidly due to the Chinese market and traders reduced purchase price squeeze growers.

According to the Association of Cassava (manioc), Vietnam, in 2013, turnover in cassava exports to China 946.4 million. 2 months of this year, Vietnam cassava output reached 652,000 tons exported, collected $ 206 million, down 32.7% and 30.6% respectively. On the other hand, the supply of cassava from Indonesia, Thailand, India huge lead to price competition, making tapioca Vietnam devalued.

According to the Center for Agriculture Tay Ninh Province, the cultivation and processing of cassava is currently facing difficulties such as price uncertainty; massive harvest season; no policy contract to purchase the output of the plant fair and market cassava consumption is limited by traders, factory price pressure.

In addition to the amount of cassava cultivation in the country, the annual Vietnam also imports millions of tonnes of cassava chips and fresh roots from Cambodia to export raw material to China. Cassava growers in the country not only compete with foreign cassava production but also about the import tax rates cassava chips and fresh bulbs plummeted from 10% to 3% since 03.25.2014, leading to price tapioca in water will lower.

To limit the cost and the private traders depend on the Chinese market, Vietnam Cassava Association is focusing on expanding its market to Europe, United States, on the other hand called the factory feed animal and plant 6 domestic ethanol production increased use of cassava as raw materials. However, this combination is happening very slow and inefficient.

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