Agricterra, an alliance of agri-agenciesin the Netherlands, has funded a training project onenvironmentally-friendly aquaculture for farmers in the Red River Deltaprovince of Nam Dinh.
As a result, the project has held 44 training courses for 1,200farmers and almost 400 campaigning sessions to educate 9,500 seafoodfarmers in food hygiene and environmentally-friendly farming.
The President of the provincial Farmers’ Association, Nguyen VanThanh, said the project has resulted in the application of greentechnology by 70 percent of local farmers in nine target villages ofthree districts.
Statistics showed that seafood production in all the three beneficiarydistricts has recorded increases in various fields from productivity tooutput and product value.
Per-capita income for seafood farmers has also increased to between70-80,000 VND a day while production output value upped to 120 millionVND per ha against the national target of 100 million VND per ha.
Thanh added that his province was to expand education campaigns onhigh yielding, food hygiene and green aquaculture technology to othervillages along the coast and even to the entire province this year.
The provincial administration will also provide technical, financial,material and marketing assistance for seafood farmers to expandproduction and increase incomes, the provincial farmers’ leaderconcluded./.
As a result, the project has held 44 training courses for 1,200farmers and almost 400 campaigning sessions to educate 9,500 seafoodfarmers in food hygiene and environmentally-friendly farming.
The President of the provincial Farmers’ Association, Nguyen VanThanh, said the project has resulted in the application of greentechnology by 70 percent of local farmers in nine target villages ofthree districts.
Statistics showed that seafood production in all the three beneficiarydistricts has recorded increases in various fields from productivity tooutput and product value.
Per-capita income for seafood farmers has also increased to between70-80,000 VND a day while production output value upped to 120 millionVND per ha against the national target of 100 million VND per ha.
Thanh added that his province was to expand education campaigns onhigh yielding, food hygiene and green aquaculture technology to othervillages along the coast and even to the entire province this year.
The provincial administration will also provide technical, financial,material and marketing assistance for seafood farmers to expandproduction and increase incomes, the provincial farmers’ leaderconcluded./.
