According to the director of a limited liability company coconut Luong Quoi processing, Cu Van Thanh, his company and the processing plant in the province of Ben Tre coconut reeling lack of raw materials, by purchasing Chinese traders coconut raw materials, pushing up prices in the province that businesses can not afford.
Previously, Chinese traders bought coconut weighs just over 1.1 kg / left ( type 1 ) , is far below the coconuts they buy and buy at high prices , from the 80000-90000 / dozen , type 1 to 115,000 VND / dozen ( dozen = 12 left ) .
He said The purchasing of coconut , before then transported by train, by car this is cointainer . Consequently, the coconut processing plant in the province do not have enough raw materials to produce both high purchase prices of raw materials increases production costs .
Private Company Limited Luong Quoi coconut processing needs 100 tons of raw copra / day but only buy 1/10 and with high prices -15 500 15,000 VND / kg , even 16,500 VND / kg copra processing . For this price , the production cost of goods desiccated coconut - staple products of Ben Tre , will cost between 1900-2000 dollars / ton , while the export price is only $ 1,750 / ton .
Mr Thanh said , the company is calculated on the Indonesian import coconut production , the price of coconut water you only VND 5,000 / left . / .
According to Văn Trí (TTXVN)
