Japanese firm wants to join Vietnam’s tea industry
Japan’s Sasaki Seicha company has surveyed Vietnam’s tea industry for a year and realised that this is a market not to be missed, the firm’s General Director Iwasaki Masao said.
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The Japanese firm wants to work with Vietnamese partners to export local tea products abroad, he noted.
Sasaki Seicha has been working with the Tea & Food Vietnam JSC to make plans for building tea factories and tea purchasing and farming in some northern provinces.
Vietnam has a tea farming area of 124,000 hectares, producing 500,000 tonnes of dry tea each year.
It exported 130,900 tonnes of tea worth SU$217.2 million in 2016, increases of 5.1 percent in volume and 2.1 percent in value from the previous year, according to preliminary data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
