Localities need to accelerate the sustainable development of keyseafood products including shrimp and tra fish, said Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat at a conference to reviewtwo years of implementing seafood sector reforms held in the MekongDelta province of Bac Lieu on July 13.
The Minister demanded theagricultural sector maintain cultivation areas and shrimp productivitywhile taking full advantage of shrimp-mangrove and shrimp-rice farmingmodels, saying the move is designed to increase competitive advantagesand global market share.
White leg shrimp are encouraged to growduring favourable weather conditions and productivity must be improvedat intensive farming areas and advanced intensive farming areas byupgrading irrigation systems, applying advanced farming techniques andproviding high-quality breeding shrimp.
Measures to preventshrimp diseases in must be popularised among famers while hi-techcultivating models are highly recommended, such as shrimp farming ingreenhouses and multi-stage shrimp grow-out systems.
Meanwhile,farmers must follow regulations on breeding commercial tra fish andbuild value chains in their businesses and production.
Theagricultural sector will cooperate with localities to build fisherycentres, creating an impetus to form and recover fishery equipmentproduction as well as provide logistics services.
In 2014,aquatic productivity reached 3.6 million tonnes, rising 5.9 percent fromthe previous year and valued at 188.6 trillion VND (8.8 billion USD).In the first two quarters of this year, 1.8 million tonnes of aquaticsanimals were cultivated across nearly 1.3 million hectares.
Thesouthern coastal swathe is home to 540,000 hectares of intensive farmingand advanced intensive farming, accounting for 88 percent of the totalcultivation areas.
Last year, the agricultural sector raked in1.7 billion USD from exporting 750,000 tonnes of tra fish from 1.1million tonnes of productivity.
The country has 100 breeding trafish farms, mostly in Dong Thap, An Giang, Can Tho and Tien Giang.Shrimp has 1,200 breeding stations in the Mekong Delta region, producing45-50 billion juvenile shrimps every year and making up of 40 percentof the total breeding animals nationwide.-VNA
The Minister demanded theagricultural sector maintain cultivation areas and shrimp productivitywhile taking full advantage of shrimp-mangrove and shrimp-rice farmingmodels, saying the move is designed to increase competitive advantagesand global market share.
White leg shrimp are encouraged to growduring favourable weather conditions and productivity must be improvedat intensive farming areas and advanced intensive farming areas byupgrading irrigation systems, applying advanced farming techniques andproviding high-quality breeding shrimp.
Measures to preventshrimp diseases in must be popularised among famers while hi-techcultivating models are highly recommended, such as shrimp farming ingreenhouses and multi-stage shrimp grow-out systems.
Meanwhile,farmers must follow regulations on breeding commercial tra fish andbuild value chains in their businesses and production.
Theagricultural sector will cooperate with localities to build fisherycentres, creating an impetus to form and recover fishery equipmentproduction as well as provide logistics services.
In 2014,aquatic productivity reached 3.6 million tonnes, rising 5.9 percent fromthe previous year and valued at 188.6 trillion VND (8.8 billion USD).In the first two quarters of this year, 1.8 million tonnes of aquaticsanimals were cultivated across nearly 1.3 million hectares.
Thesouthern coastal swathe is home to 540,000 hectares of intensive farmingand advanced intensive farming, accounting for 88 percent of the totalcultivation areas.
Last year, the agricultural sector raked in1.7 billion USD from exporting 750,000 tonnes of tra fish from 1.1million tonnes of productivity.
The country has 100 breeding trafish farms, mostly in Dong Thap, An Giang, Can Tho and Tien Giang.Shrimp has 1,200 breeding stations in the Mekong Delta region, producing45-50 billion juvenile shrimps every year and making up of 40 percentof the total breeding animals nationwide.-VNA
