High-tech shrimp farming area constructed in Bac Lieu province

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony to launch the construction of a high-tech agricultural area specialised in shrimp development in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on January 30 as part of a local investment promotion conference.
High-tech shrimp farming area constructed in Bac Lieu province ảnh 1Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (C) released shrimps in a greenhouse of Vietnam-Australia Group (Photo VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc attended a ceremony to launch the construction of a high-techagricultural area specialised in shrimp development in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Bac Lieu on January 30 as part of a local investment promotionconference.
[PM urges Bac Lieu to focus on high-tech shrimp farming]

 The area will cover 418.91 hectares in HiepThanh commune, Bac Lieu city, with total expected investment of 3.2 trillionVND (140.4 million USD).

The locality has big ambitions of becoming anational shrimp industrial hub.

The area will serve as a centre linking withinstitutes, schools and businesses using high technology in shrimp breeding,creating a chain from producing parent shrimp and varieties to super-intensivefarming, processing, preservation and food production research.

According to Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Duong Thanh Trung, after the ceremony, more than 20 businessesregistered to invest in the shrimp farming area, while many institutes andschools signed agreements to connect, transfer and apply advanced technologies.The total registered investment amounted to more than 2.6 trillion VND (114.1million USD).

He called for more assistance from theGovernment, ministries and businesses to build high-tech shrimp farming modelsto aid local development.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentNguyen Xuan Cuong said the area will help expand high-tech shrimp breedingacross the region along with 28 shrimp-breeding cities and provincesnationwide, contributing to realising the country’s shrimp export target of 10billion USD in 2021-2025.

PM Phuc urged the province to accelerate theconstruction of the area to put it into operation as soon as possible.

The same day, the PM attended a ceremony torelease shrimps in a greenhouse of Vietnam-Australia Group and build a symbolof Vietnamese shrimp.
Bac Lieu has an aquaculturearea of 1,290 sq.km. With a coastline of 56 km, three seaports and an economicexclusive zone of 20,742 sq.km, the province has favourable conditions todevelop agriculture, fishing and fishery logistics. 

Agriculture accounts for 43.14 percent of theprovince’s gross regional domestic product. Each year, the locality harvestsabout 210,000 tonnes of aquatic products, of which 115,000 tonnes are shrimp,with shrimp export turnover exceeding 527 million USD. -VNA
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