Sai Gon-Mekong is Vietnam’s eighth enterprise to receive these accreditations. In addition, the US Chamber of Commerce has granted the enterprise a zero percent anti-dumping tax on tra fillet to the US market.

Sai Gon-Mekong company got the GlobalGAP for 15 ha of 30 ha of tra farming areas of the company in the southern city of Tra Vinh. Those farms have an output of 7,000 tonnes of products.

At present, Tra Vinh has about 100 ha of water surface along the Hau and Tien rivers for growing tra fish for exports, yielding an output of more than 16,000 tonnes with an export turnover of US$4 million.

The locality plans to expand its acreage for tra farming to 2,900 ha by 2015 and to 3,900 ha by 2020 with an output of 248,000 tonnes.