Production and export of cassava products in the near future
In recent years , production capacity and cassava in Vietnam has seen significant progress . 2008 cassava growing area of the country has increased from 270,000 ha (in 2005 ) to 510,000 hectares , production is estimated at more than 8 million tons , up 2.3 % from last year but nearly doubled compared to 3 years before . Notably, the area exceeded 135 thousand ha compared to cassava development plan until 2010 . Productivity also increased the past year , though not many , from 15.35 tonnes / ha in 2005 ( the world average of 12.16 tonnes / ha ) to 15.7 tons / ha in 2008, but still lower than India ( 31.43 tonnes / ha ) , Thailand ( 21.09 tonnes / ha ) . Production for 2009 is estimated at 8.1 to 8.6 million tonnes , higher than last year at 0.2 to 0.4 million tons .
Many cassava processing factories in the country were built . On a national scale , there are about 60 processing plants starch industrial scale with a total processing capacity of more than half a million tons per year of cassava starch , corresponding to the demand for nearly 2.5 million tons fresh cassava tubers , with 30% of national output , double the number of plants and capacity 3 fold compared to 5 years ago .
Since early this year , cassava is one of the few items of export volume and export value increased . According to preliminary statistics of the amount of information center of commerce and industry ( Ministry of Industry and Trade ) , in the first 7 months of 2009, the country exported 2.66 million tonnes of cassava and cassava starch , turnover 408 million, an increase of 4.4 times in volume and 2.8 times in value over the same period in 2008 .
On the export market , China is still the main export markets of Vietnam's cassava products , accounting for over 90% of turnover . Followed by South Korea 5.5 % , Taiwan 2 % ...
On the export price , cassava tends recovery . The average export price in June and July reached 175-179 USD / ton , an increase of 25-29 % compared with the average export price in January of 2009 .
Regarding price developments , if in 2008 , the average price of cassava is 3,000 VND / kg, in the last months of 2008 and the first three months of 2009, prices fell to 1500-1700 dong / kg and rose to 1,900 currently -2 100 VND / kg . Currently, the price of cassava chips exported 2800-2900 VND / kg at Huu Nghi border gate and 175 USD / ton (about 3,180 VND / kg ) at Saigon Port .
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) , in 2009 , the cassava market has many contradictory trends . On the one hand , the increase in trade between countries , organizations and support plan cassava growers could lead to a larger supply . But on the other hand , grain prices and lower world energy prices affect the ability to maintain and expand production . The current financial crisis also affect the planting plan or increase the area , especially the plans to produce biofuels . Against this backdrop , cassava production forecasts in 2009 will be reduced by 3% , to about 231 million tons .
In Vietnam , the last 2 years due to constantly rising price of cassava farmers massively increased area . Currently the area has exceeded planned for 2010 . Production for 2009 is estimated at 8.1 to 8.6 million tonnes , higher than last year at 0.2 to 0.4 million tons .
For some cassava export markets such as Vietnam , Thailand and Cambodia that . Thailand 's cassava output in 2009 increased by about 1 million tons unexpected . Due to declining demand in both domestic market and export markets , including China and the EU and Thailand 's cassava exports face strong competition on price with Vietnam led to excess Also available on the Thai market . In the first 5 months of the year , Thailand exported 877.2 thousand tons of cassava starch , equivalent over the same period .
For Cambodia , in 2009 , the country's cassava production reached about 2 million tons , approximately five . However, since Thailand began a campaign for protection of cassava farms in the country to 1/2009 , the demand for imports of fresh cassava from Thailand Cambodia have plummeted . This has led to a huge backlog of fresh cassava is not processed . It is estimated that this year there will be about 900,000 tonnes of unprocessed cassava in Cambodia was stagnant .
Cambodia has two processing plants from dried cassava into cassava powder , a place on the outskirts of Phnom Penh and one at the Cham - Pong . Each year , the two plants can produce 1 million tonnes of cassava flour .
Regarding the demand for cassava in the Chinese market rose sharply , although demand for livestock mitigation but demand for biofuel production have helped to increase total consumption in 2009 remained generally maintenance . In particular , China's demand for raw materials to meet manufacturing plant biofuel stations are expected to rise sharply .
As the third largest ethanol producer in the world , after the U.S. and Brazil , many local Chinese have mandated the use of ethanol - blended gasoline in cars . China has built many processing plants for biofuels in the country , especially in the Guangxi region , which accounts for 70 % of the national cassava production , reaching 7 million tons / year . In it is the largest factory of China Oil and Food Corporation ( COFCO ) consumed 1.5 million tonnes of cassava / year . In addition, the two companies is China 's Beihai Gofar Marine Biological Industry and China - based Hainan Yedao Group also build 2 plants with a capacity of 100,000 tons san/nam/1 plant here ...
At the same time , the Chinese government also links with Laos, Nigeria , the Philippines to plant cassava in the country , as plans to plant 4,498 hectares in Laos , planted 4,500 ha in the Philippines to increase supply for domestic demand .
Demand for Chinese goods cassava is very large . It is expected that each year it has to import 6 - 6.5 million tons / year to meet the demand .
The early months of 2008 cassava prices on the world market has increased sharply . At one point , the price of cassava chips imported into China increased to 200 USD / ton and the export price of Thai Tapioca reached 440 USD / ton . But since late 2008 , due to the impact of the global economic crisis , the price of cassava has declined dramatically . In Thailand , the largest exporter of cassava in the world, in February is the time of harvest , the price of cassava has dropped to 240 USD / ton , down 40 % compared to the same period in 2008 . However, from the beginning of the year , along with the recovery of crude oil prices and demand in China helped increase cassava prices rose again . Price of cassava starch in Thailand has risen to 285 USD / ton , up 19 % compared to February but down 27 % compared to the same period in 2008 . But prices are still about 28 % higher than the average girl in exports in 2006.
Estimates of the national cassava production in 2009 was about 8.1 to 8.6 million tons . With cassava for export ratio of about 48.6 % , used as fodder for 22.4 % , 16.8 % processed , only 12.2 % using fresh consumption , the export volume for the year Vietnam's approximately 4 million tons . 6 months of 2009 , Vietnam exported 2.4 million tonnes of cassava (which included a large inventory of 2008 switched ) . With new supply is added to the end of the year , this year forecast Vietnam will export about 4.6 to 5 million tons of cassava , equivalent export volume of about 5 months last year from 1.8 to 2.3 million tons .
The recovery of oil prices and the prices of agricultural and forest products along the supply is expected to decline while demand in China will increase as the factors that helped lift export prices of our country in the future , but will not increase much .
To promote exports of cassava in the coming time , Vietnam enterprises should continue to seek new markets outside of the Chinese market to curb excessive dependence on the Chinese market in the state is forced price . Many potential market that Vietnam remains untapped as the EU . Thailand is currently providing starch leading to the EU market , accounting for 45 % market share of imports. Apart from Thailand , and other developing countries accounted for only 2 % , of which Vietnam accounted for 1.7 % of the total market share of imports of EU starch . In addition, Vietnam enterprises should increase the amount of processing export products instead of exporting raw products ( cassava chips and cassava ) today.
