Ca Mau targets 2.5 billion USD from shrimp exports by 2025

The southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to earn 2.5 billion USD from shrimp exports, and become the largest shrimp breeding hub in the country by 2025.
Ca Mau targets 2.5 billion USD from shrimp exports by 2025 ảnh 1The southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to earn 2.5 billion USD from shrimp exports by 2025.
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Ca Mau (VNA) – The southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to earn2.5 billion USD from shrimp exports, and become the largest shrimp breeding hub in the country by 2025.

Under the shrimp industry development plan, the province eyes to expand shrimpraising area to 279,000 hectares with a total output of 233,000 tonnes by 2020.It expects to gain 1.8 billion USD from shrimp shipments to foreign markets.

By 2025, the shrimp breeding area will be reduced to 260,000 hectares but itstotal output and export revenue is hoped to reach 320,000 tonnes and 2.5billion USD.

In a bid to realise the set target, the provincial authorities will prioritisedeveloping infrastructure in large-scale shrimp raising areas, applying advancedtechnology, and use rational production methods.

The province will expand super-intensive, intensive and semi-intensive shrimpfarming, together with advanced extensive farming model which is suitable for naturalconditions and local farmers’ investment capacity.

Also, it is working to produce 23.5 billion breeding prawns and white-legshrimps by 2020. The number will increase to 29.5 billion to satisfy 70 percentof farming demand in the province.

Ca Mau will channel more efforts to seek and access to other potential marketsbesides traditional ones like the US, Japan and the EU. Due attention will bealso paid to the domestic market.

In addition, the province will build a hi-tech agricultural zone which isenvisioned to become a typical aquaculture area in Vietnam, capable to competein the region and the world.-VNA
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