Domestic trade
Goal for 2021-2030:
Trade-in Value Added grows at an average rate of 8-8.5% per anum, contributing 11- 13 % of the province’s GRDP; Retail sales of consumber goods and services grows at an average rate of 11-12 % per anum; 40% of the total number of small and medium enteprises actively operating in major e-commerce platforms domestically and internationally.
Goal for 2031- 2045:
Trade-in Value Added grows at an average rate of 8.5 – 9% per anum, contributing 12.5 – 13.5 % of the province’s GRDP; Retail sales of consumber goods and services grows at an average rate of 10 – 11.5 % per anum; 60% of the total number of small and medium enteprises actively operating in major e-commerce platforms domestically and internationally.
local products
As of November 23, 2023, in Ca Mau, products meeting OCOP standards: 140 products
In there:
- Products cetified to OCOP 4-star standards: 06 products
- Products cetified to OCOP 3-star standards: 134 products
Notably, OCOP certified products are sold at prices usually 20 % higher than those of non OCOP products, resulting in 10-30 % increase in sales. OCOP standard certification also contibutes to continual improvement of the products quality, meeting an increased demand from consumbers for high quality products.
The province aims to having at least 40 new OCOP certified products, of which at least 30 meet 3 – 4 star standards; and supports upgrating at least 30 products to 4-5 stars standard in 2023.
import and export
In 2022, the province’s export turnover reach 1.3 billion USD.
To which:
- seafood accounts for 82 %
- In particularly, shrimp products alone accounts for 72% (nearly 1 billion USD) of the province’s export turnover, equivalent to 23.3% of the country’s shrimp export total.
The provincial authority continuingly supports businesses to enhance:
- Expanding production and export of processed shrimp products (frozen shrimp, dried shrimp, etc.)
- Stablising fertilizer production
- Develop and market new export products such as: garments, dried bananas, dried jackfruit, mud crabs, rice, products from shrimp shells, fish meal,…
Key product industry
Fisheries
Fisheries is an important economic sector, Ca Mau sets the goal:
- Total seafood output:
- In the period 2021 – 2025: 3.3 million tons
- By 2030: 7.1 million tons
- Average output growth rate: 3% p.a.
- Seafood export turnover:
- Period 2021 – 2025: 5.65 billion USD
- Period 2026 – 2030: 7.0 billion USD.
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Agricultural Sector
Agricultural production in Ca Mau is shifting rice to shrimp farming. A limited area of rice farm will be maintained for food security reason. The remaining area, mostly low yield rice farm land, will be converted to shrimp farming and aquaculture. Despite major recent changes in the province’s economy’s composition, agriculture remains as an important sector, in terms of providing local livelihood, meeting local food demand, ensuring food security and stabilising the local food market.
Cultivation
Agricultural production in Ca Mau is shifting rice to shrimp farming. A limited area of rice farm will be maintained for food security reason. The remaining area, mostly low yield rice farm land, will be converted to shrimp farming and aquaculture. Despite major recent changes in the province’s economy’s composition, agriculture remains as an important sector, in terms of providing local livelihood, meeting local food demand, ensuring food security and stabilising the local food market.
Livestock industry
Agricultural production in Ca Mau is shifting rice to shrimp farming. A limited area of rice farm will be maintained for food security reason. The remaining area, mostly low yield rice farm land, will be converted to shrimp farming and aquaculture. Despite major recent changes in the province’s economy’s composition, agriculture remains as an important sector, in terms of providing local livelihood, meeting local food demand, ensuring food security and stabilising the local food market.
Forestry Sector
Agricultural production in Ca Mau is shifting rice to shrimp farming. A limited area of rice farm will be maintained for food security reason. The remaining area, mostly low yield rice farm land, will be converted to shrimp farming and aquaculture. Despite major recent changes in the province’s economy’s composition, agriculture remains as an important sector, in terms of providing local livelihood, meeting local food demand, ensuring food security and stabilising the local food market.
featured products
Frozen seafood
With the advantage of facing the sea on three sides and a dense system of canals and rivers, Ca Mau is home to many types of saltwater and brackish water seafood, creating many popular products on the market, especially seafood. products made from black tiger shrimp and vannamei shrimp, fish cakes,…
- Ca Mau aquatic products have been exported to more than 60 countries and territories in the world
- The most loyal customers of Ca Mau aquatic products are: The US, Japan, Korea, EU, Australia, Canada, etc
- Total production of frozen shrimp: 149,278 tons
- Total capture fisheries production: 214,913 tons
- Total production of shrimp fisheries and aquaculture: 190,199 tons
- Area of water surface aquaculture: 32,388 hectares
- Area of saltwater and brackish water for shrimp farming: 266,441 hectares
- Area of freshwater for shrimp farming: 16,472 hectares
- Throughout the province, there are currently 19,000 hectares of wild shrimp certified to such international standards as Naturland, EU, Biosusse, ASC.
Ca Mau Fertilizer
Ca Mau nitogen fertilizer has created a strong foodhold in local and international market, created to product quality and success marketisation. The “Golden Harvest” brand has become a household brand well known amount farmers and neighbour countries.
- Ca Mau Fertilizer has made solid steps towards to the position of one of the leading fertilizer producers in Viet Nam
- Ca Mau Fertilizer products have been presented in domestic and foreign markets
- Ca Mau fertilizer production reaches 807.000 tons
Ca Mau Shrimp
Ca Mau tiger shrimp is one of the specialties of the South. This type of shrimp is grown completely naturally, eating natural foods thanks to complex farming techniques.
The meat of Ca Mau black tiger shrimp is juicy, firm, and the size is also relatively larger than white shrimp, about 10 – 13cm long. Thanks to its flavor, the price of this type of shrimp is relatively high, but still lower than that of mother tiger shrimp.
Processed products from shrimp
If you have ever enjoyed this specialty, you cannot forget the flavor it brings. Tourists who have been to Mui Ca Mau do not buy some Rach Goc dried shrimp as gifts. When you hold a package of Rach Goc dried shrimp in your hand, everyone knows you have come to Ca Mau, so Ca Mau dried shrimp is an indispensable gift when traveling to Ca Mau.
Brand Crab Ca Mau
Ca Mau has three sides bordered by the sea, high salinity all year round, that is the reason why Ca Mau mug crabs are more delicious than mug crabs in other places. Mangrove forests provide an ideal habitat for mud crab to grow and reproduce. the wetland ecosystem create an abundant source of food for the mug crabs and other crustaceans. Growing in natural environment, mug crab harvested in Ca Mau has firm meat and characteristic sweetness and aroma that is rarely matched by any other aquatic species.
Nam Can Ca Mau mug crab brand is one of the top fresh produce of the province which has been granted a collective trade mark by the National Office of Intellectual Property
Fermented Ba Khia Crab
Brand Rach Goc Ba Khia, a fermented three-striped crab dish is a wellknown speciaty of Ca Mau. the dish is made from sesarma, which habitates in blackish mangrove wetland abundant in Ca Mau, by adding salt, sugar and other spices to allow the fermentation process take place for a week or so. Rach Goc Ba Khia is well known among local and tourists for its red roe, fragrant and firm meat.
Specialty Fish
Vast and diverse wetland area in Ca Mau offer a variety of highly commercial value fish species. Fish can be harvest from rice fields, canals network, and near shore seawater. Among those, eel and the marble goby from Tan Thanh district, horseface loach from Cai Doi Vam are specialties. The process of applying for collective trade marks for those valuable commodities is underway.
Ca Mau fishcake made from locally harvested fish has been exported to several markets such as Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Russian, Thailand,…
- Saltwater capture fish production: 173,696 tons
- Fish aquaculture production: 125.602 tons
- Area of saltwater and brackish water for fish farming: 1,621 hectares
- Fresh water area: 17,545 hectares
Dried Fish
Ca Mau dried fish, dried shrimp and dried squid are diverse and abundant. With fresh ingredients, processed by traditional methods, without any seasoning, dried fish and dried shrimp of Ca Mau retain the pure natural delicious taste and have absolute safety quality.
With a large fishing ground and 3 sides bordered by the sea, Ca Mau dried squid products have a firm foothold in the hearts of consumers. Not only is a favored gift, Ca Mau dried squid has been exported to numberous overseas markets.
Rice
Ca Mau province has been successful in its effort to build a clean rice brand through promoting the application of good seed research and putting into new high quality paddy varieties farming.
The production process complies with the safe paddy cultivation process, using only biological fertilizers and biological plant protection products, ensuring healthy rice grains and reaching the best aroma, protecting consumers’ health.
- Rice production: 380,113.6 tons (tons)
- Rice farming area: 117,390.2 hectares, of which:
- Rice farming area meeting VietGap standards: 200 hectares
- Organic rice farming area meeting organic standards of the US, Japan, and EU: 100 hectares
- Rice farming locations: Ca Mau City, U Minh District, Thoi Binh District, Tran Van Thoi District, Cai Nuoc District, Nam Can District,…
- Export market: Philippines, India, China,…
Wooden Products
Ca Mau has been one of the top timber producing provinces in Sourthern Viet Nam. Timber is produced mainly from melaleuca and acacia plantation for further processes into industrial wood, especially plywood, wood pellets,….
- Mangrove chopsticks
- Charcoal
- Wood pellets
Featured Products
Wild honey
Wild honey havested in U Minh Ha forests is acrystal-clear and has bright orange like amber colour. Honey manually havested is naturally organic, has a distinct aroma extracted from Melaleuca flowers. It is a meaningful gift desired by many tourists.
Rhizome pickle/Cattail Pickle
Fermented fish
With a meticulous and elaborate making process, fermented fish of Ca Mau province when being used for cooking, always brings out the most unique flavor. Fermented snakehead fish, fermented fresh water fish, fermented sesarmid,… all of them are much depth in flavor and fresh, can please any dinners from anywhere.
Speciaty banana
Bananas are a popular crop that has long been associated with Ca Mau farmers. The laba banana variety is chosen to be cultivated commercially in the province due to its commercial value and increased demand from consumers.. Laba banana has yellow flesh, flexible texture, sweet taste, providing lots of energy and nutrients.
In addition to fresh, ready-to-eat bananas, Ca Mau also has dried banana products, dried bananas made from 100% natural bananas, certified as typical rural industrial products, and are loved by domestic and foreign consumers. favorite country.
- Exported markets: Saudi Arabia and Dubai – members of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Japan, South Korea, China…
- Banana planting area: 5,440.3 hectares
- Production: 54.356,8 tons
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