VietShrimp 2025 set to return to Can Tho

This event serves as a prime opportunity for industry leaders, specialists, enterprises, and farmers to come together, share insights, and explore solutions to address challenges and propel the shrimp industry towards global market growth.

Predictions suggest that by 2030, global demand for seafood will rise by 18% compared to 2018, with farmed seafood making up about 59% of this consumption and around 36% of production being exported.

This provides a substantial opportunity to advance Vietnam’s seafood industry, although it also introduces risks related to unsustainable production practices, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. Hence, the sector must embrace green, sustainable, and eco-friendly methods.

Vietnam’s target for 2030 is to achieve a production of 7 million tons from aquaculture out of a total of 10 million tons of seafood. This means that 70% of seafood processing for export will rely on aquaculture, with shrimp and pangasius being the leading products. Both have long supported the green economy and are experiencing significant growth. This underscores the inevitability and irreversibility of the green economy trend in Vietnam’s seafood sector, with many positive developments expected in the coming years.

According to experts, green development is integral to a circular economy, aiming for sustainable progress by recycling waste, reducing environmental pollution, and ensuring long-term resource use while regenerating natural ecosystems. This closed-loop system reuses waste as production input, minimizing negative impacts on the environment, ecosystems, and human health. Green development seeks to conserve natural resources, improve competitiveness, create new markets, generate employment, and enhance social value.

With the theme “Greening Farming, VietShrimp 2025 will take place in Can Tho City from March 26-28, 2025. This event is a chance for managers, specialists, businesses, and farmers to convene, collaborate, and discover solutions to overcome obstacles and drive the shrimp industry’s resurgence on the global stage.

Having been held five times in 2016 and 2018 in Bac Lieu Province; 2021 and 2023 in Can Tho City; and 2024 in Ca Mau Province, VietShrimp has made a significant mark and continues to affirm its reputation as a key trade fair for shrimp both in Vietnam and internationally.