Vietnam exports first batch of processed chicken to Japan

The shipment demonstrates CPV Food’s great efforts in penetrating the demanding market that imports approximately one million tonnes of chicken meat a year, ranking third in the world after China and Russia.

From May 31 to June 3, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) sent a veterinary inspection team to CPV Food's production facility in Binh Phuoc to evaluate the chicken production and processing chain.

On August 30, the MAFF then sent an official dispatch, affirming that CPV Food has fully met its veterinary hygiene requirements for products to be exported to Japan.

The move opened up a big opportunity for CPV Food in particular and the poultry industry in general to penetrate deep into the Japanese market, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, at the announcement ceremony.

Montri Suwanposri, general director of CP Vietnam, said that the export of the first shipment to Japan marked the success of CPV's Feed - Farm - Food value chain that started the journey to bring Vietnamese processed chicken products to Japan, as well as other foreign markets.

CPV Food owns the country’s largest chicken slaughter that is capable of processing one million chickens a week for exports, equivalent to 50 million chickens per year.

In the second phase, the company will raise its processing capacity to two million heads per week, equivalent to 100 million per year.