The total output of bird’s nests is expected to reach 160 tonnes of unprocessed bird’s nests in 2025. (Photo: VNA)According to Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, procedures needed to exportbird’s nests to China are almost completed. Vietnam expects to ship the firstbatch of this product to China in the first quarter of 2021, the world’slargest bird’s nest consumption market.
Do Tu Quan, head of the VietnamSwiftlet Farming Association, said the total output of unprocessed bird’s nestsis expected to reach 160 tonnes in 2025. Most of the output will be exported toChina to the tune of 100 tonnes, earning 150 million USD.
The remaining 60 tonnes will beprocessed to 42 tonnes of clean bird’s nests. Of which, it expects to ship 16.8tonnes of clean bird’s nests to Singapore and 8.4 tonnes to the USwith export values of 58.8 million USD and 29.4 million USD, respectively.The rest of the clean bird’s nests will be consumed in the domestic market.
In 2021 the domestic swiftbreeding industry expects to achieve a turnover of about 3 trillion VND. Theturnover is predicted to surge to 6 trillion VND in 2025 if Vietnam develops aproduction chain of bird’s nests, processing technology for bird’s nestsproducts and develops markets with many trade promotion activities for thisproduct.
Quan said Vietnam needs to builda brand name for Vietnamese bird’s nests in the world market together with thedevelopment of production chains for this product, Nongnghiep Viet Nam (Vietnam Agriculture) newspaper reported.
In recent years, the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has actively promoted exports ofbird’s nests to foreign markets, including China. Due to the impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic, negotiations to export the product to China have mainly beenconducted via online meetings and procedures are almost completed, said DeputyDirector of the MARD's Department of Livestock Breeding Nguyen Van Trong.
Trong noted that Vietnamesebird’s nests eligible for export could meet a third of the demand in theChinese market, opening huge opportunities for this multi-million-dollarindustry.
Forty-two out of 63provinces and cities in Vietnam participate in the swift breeding industry witha total of 20,000 birdhouses and an annual volume of approximately 120 tonnes,worth about 450 million USD.
Vietnam’s swift breeding industrybegan to thrive in 2010, with the volume accounting for 3 percent of the globalbird’s nests production. The southern province of Kien Giang has the largestnumber of birdhouses at 2,600.
Although bird’s nests are aspeciality of high economic value in Vietnam and one of the 10 most expensivedishes in the world, their production value remains low and cannot be comparedwith traditional agricultural products, and they have yet to be classified inthe group of national key products./.
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