China's main export markets and commodities tapioca starch from Vietnam

This afternoon (01/14/2010) took place in Hanoi conference trade between importers and cassava starch China and Vietnam businesses and introduce advanced technology and processing equipment starch China.

Trade between importers and cassava starch China and Vietnam enterprises.

CongThuong - According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam annual harvest of over 8 million tonnes of cassava tubers. The larger the value of cassava in Vietnam's export Tay Ninh, Binh Thuan, the Southeast region and the Central Highlands. In addition to use as human food, industrial use of feed processing, Vietnam is still over 50%, equivalent to more than 4 million cassava tubers can be exported for processing in the form of starch or cassava.

Many years ago, cassava is not taken seriously by the economic efficiency is not high, hard to preserve and only considered agricultural side, planted in hilly lands, degraded, or intercropped plants, pillow cases ... due to low productivity. A few years ago, Vietnam cassava become valuable because of export demand of world imports increased cassava. Ministry of Industry and Trade program is also included cassava products into agricultural production Vietnam's major export.

Along with some corn and other agricultural products, cassava is also used as raw material for ethanol production. In recent years, high oil prices have stimulated the production of ethanol as biofuel mix in gasoline fuel, has reduced the price of petrol consumption, and to reduce harmful CO2 emissions, improving the environment in the Car usage is increasing worldwide. In Vietnam also has appeared a number of investment projects of up to hundreds of millions of dollars, build ethanol plants, using hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cassava annually.

China is a huge market of products imported cassava and cassava starch. Every year, Chinese enterprises to import cassava as feedstock ethanol as biofuel, as the alcohol industry, food processing, animal feed, industrial use in chemical, paper, pharmaceuticals ... Currently, China is the main export market items cassava and cassava in Vietnam, accounting for over 90% of exports of cassava in Vietnam. In 2009, exports to Vietnam cassava bring about $ 800 million. In addition to Vietnam, the Chinese traders looking to buy cassava in Indonesia, Thailand and other countries.

In addition to shopping for cassava products, some Chinese enterprises also intend to seek partners for joint venture investment in building factories modified tapioca starch, cassava planting cooperation in high yield Vietnam and technology transfer wastewater treatment plant starch ...

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Trade between importers and cassava starch China and Vietnam enterprises.