We are pleased to announce that we have started our consultancy project in Vietnam. Over the next months we are going to study in depth Vietnamese aquaculture shrimp and tra catfish traceability in the An Giang and the Ben Tre provinces. It is our goal to add these provinces to the traceability community by designing a simple, yet effective traceability system for them. Of course this a real challenge where much of the shrimp production actually comes from very small farms (roughly 500,000-600,000 of them!). We are currently meeting relevant people in the ministries in Hanoi and move on Wednesday to the field.

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