DESPITE the much-publicised concept that the developing world harbours a massive, un-tapped workforce, a recent visit to Vietnam by Seafood Processor discovered that finding labour is a problem for the country’s seafood factories.
‘In the future we need to do something to increase production, but with the same amount of workers,’ says Agrex Saigon’s general director Le Thi My Linh. The factory currently operates with a staff of 1200, mostly women, but is having difficulties recruiting people. This is due in part to higher levels of education – particularly of women – in Ho Chi Minh City, where the factory is situated.
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