Overview of the Food Value Chain of Ben Tre

Overview

Population: 1.3 million people.

Labor: Labor source is abundant and cheap. Likely to become a major intern supply area in the future.

Actively attracting investments from Japanese enterprises. The province supports creating brands for 8 products, including coconut.

Agriculture, livestock and aquaculture

Agriculture: accounts for 40% of the national coconut production. 4,000 hectares have been converted to organic vegetables. Plant a lot of rambutan.

Livestock: Raising pigs is quite popular. Cow farming is developing.

Seafood: both fishing and farming tend to develop. Mainly raising basa fish.

Consumption and Market

Food retail: Rural population accounts for 77%. The province has 2 supermarkets.

Produce sold to other provinces: coconuts, oranges, grapefruits, tropical fruits of all kinds.

Export: 49% exported to China. Mainly seafood, grapefruit, coconut. Export ports and airports are mainly located in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces.

Infrastructure

Climate change response: The project to combat saline intrusion, stabilize agricultural production through "Ben Tre Province Water Management Project" is using loan in Yen currency.

Industrial zone: Concentrate many fruit, coconut and seafood processing enterprises.

There is a plan to build a road connecting the eastern part of the Mekong Delta (Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang)

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