Many opportunities to export cassava Argentina

-According VOV.VN American Market Department, Vietnam has the ability to boost exports to Argentina.

American Market Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) said, Argentina is one of the exporters of agricultural products leading, export products mainly include: soybeans, barley, sunflower seeds, corn , rice and cotton. However, cassava production is very limited, mainly cooperatives and small producers, no major growing regions, so low yield of cassava. The output of 70,000 tons per year only 17,000 tonnes of cassava and cassava starch.

Demand for large cassava Argentina, not only for traditional baking Chipa but also provide raw materials for the food industry (especially in sausage), chemical industry, pharmaceutical and textile industry .

Every year, the demand for imports of Argentina reached 300,000 tons. 2014, although the maximum limit imports but imports of cassava starch Argentina reached 250,000 tons, nearly 3 million, while imports from Vietnam.

New Vietnam exports to Argentina a few years ago, the number is still modest, in 2014 exported 153 tonnes of starch and nearly $ 100,000.

Argentina have policies promoting cassava production but production by small-scale cooperatives and family should not yield enough for domestic consumption. On the other hand the price of cassava Argentina twice as high compared to cassava imports should not encourage people to plant cassava.

While exporters of Vietnam faced many difficulties such as import tariffs were higher than the water pressure in the block Mecosur; remote geographical distance, but also has many advantages such as: Argentina still needs to import raw materials and competitive price, so we still have the ability to boost exports to Argentina. /.

Ha Tran / VOV.VN