According to Luu Hoang Ly, Director of the provincial Department of Agricultureand Rural Development, Bac Lieu aims to improve the incomes and lives of peopleinvolved in agriculture.
It plans to develop organic agriculture and processing and a hi-tech zone forbreeding shrimp.
The province will create favourable conditions to attract investments in thehi-tech agriculture zone, and, based on its development, create motivation fordeveloping others, he said.
Bac Lieu is the country’s second largest shrimp producer after neighbouring CaMau province.
It plans to establish at least 10 hi-tech aquaculture zones on a combined4,070ha by 2030.
They will focus on black-tiger shrimp, white-legged shrimp, mud crabs, andbivalve mollusc.
For shrimp farming, the province will prioritise intensive and super intensivemethods and the use of technology and developing clean farming methods.
One of the methods, shrimp – rice farming, involves farmers growing rice in therainy season and raising shrimp in the dry season on the same fields.
The province will adopt VietGAP, GlobalGAP, organic, or Global AquacultureStewardship Council standards in aquaculture.
It also plans to have 100,000ha of large-scale rice fields with farmers signingcontracts with companies to guarantee outlets and steady prices.
The department has sought funds to develop organic rice farming models on10,000ha based on VietGAP standards by 2025.
It is also developing farming co-operatives and co-operative groups that willlink up with processing companies.
It will expand export markets and expects to export 2 billion USD worth ofagricultural, seafood and forestry products annually by 2030.
It also aims to increase by then the income of rural people by 2.5 – 3 timescompared to 2020./.