Two Vietnamese pangasius growers discover GlobalGap qualification doesn't guarantee higher prices
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Tuoi Tre News] - November 18, 2014 -
A couple of catfish growers in a southern Vietnamese province want to stop deploying the GlobalGAP standards despite the massive amount of time and money they exerted to follow these good practices as their efforts have not paid off.
Giang Van Bay was one of the four households in Tra Vinh Province that met all standards to apply the GlobalGAP standards for catfish growing back in 2012.
When the project, backed by the provincial administration and several foreign sponsors, was first introduced in July 2012, hundreds of local catfish growers signed up, but only 33 were qualified to pass the first round of selections.
When the catfish growers called in two companies that had committed to buying all the products under the project in June, the firms said they could not buy their fish due to difficulties in finding product outlets.
The farmers had to sell the fish to local traders at prices similar to traditionally-raised catfish.
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