date:Jul 20, 2012
t is expected that about half thefarmers will give up after harvesting their next lot of fish.
To stay in business they need VND 25,000 ($1.20) a kilogram. Thatprice would have to work its way through the chain and with afillet yield of 30%, plus the cost of processing and freezing,resulting in a selling price for export of $3.80 to $4.00 akilogram. Some in the industry say that this would make pangasiusmore or less unmarketable, as it would lose out to other,cheaper whitefish species. But with