Salt is not only an essential product but also cultural heritage and plays an importance role in the economy and various fields, said Deputy PM Tran Hong Ha.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan on December 11 assured that the country’s food supply is safe amid extreme weather.

Indonesia will slash corn, salt, sugar import quotas for 2025 as part of its efforts to make domestic industries use more domestic products.

Indonesia continues to face a shortage of salt and have to import salt despite having expansive seas, Director General of Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Textile Industries of the Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) Reni Yanita has said.

Farmers in Sam Son city, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, have become rich by developing traditional fish sauce production and business.

The National Agro-Forestry-Fishery Quality Assurance Department has announced that salt produced in some central provinces, where abnormal mass fish deaths occurred recently, is safe for consumers.

Numerous production chains applying advanced technology in the fisheries sector have been established in the central province of Binh Dinh in a bid to realise the agriculture reform policy.