Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked Tien Giang to transform itself into an industrial and service-oriented province, acting as an economic growth pole of the Mekong Delta.
The border guard force of Tien Giang province is one of the core forces in conducting information dissemination and persuading fishermen to strictly comply with regulations on seafood exploitation at sea and not infringing foreign waters as the province intensifies measures to curb illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Fishing vessels in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have strictly followed regulations and proactive monitoring measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to the provincial Steering Committee for IUU Fishing Prevention and Control.
The last sections of My Thuan 2 Bridge, connecting the Mekong Delta provinces of Tien Giang and Vinh Long, were joined in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 14.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang attracted two new projects to its industrial parks in the first nine months of this year, with total registered capital of 12 million USD and 220 billion VND (over 9 million USD).
The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has instructed relevant departments and agencies to deal with shortcomings in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing based on recommendations by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has plenty of advantages to develop tourism, particularly agricultural and rural one. The province is home to many rivers, canals and more than 80,000 ha of specialty fruit orchards, traditional craft villages, and historical cultural relic sites. Tien Giang takes rural and garden ecological tours as one of its key tourism products to promote in the province
Tien Giang province has aimed to become an economic locomotive in the Mekong Delta region, which comes as part of a draft plan for the province’s socio-economic development during the period 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050.
The Steering Committee for the Prevention and control of Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) of the southern province of Tien Giang has been stepping up communication activities to raise awareness for fishermen and relevant sectors on the need to end IUU fishing.
In recent years, many farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have changed their way of thinking and doing, to improve their family's income and create high-added value in the direction of shifting from agricultural production to the agricultural economy.
Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have taken a wide range of measures to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as a part of the national efforts to remove the European Commission (EC)’s ‘yellow card’ warning against Vietnam’s seafood exports.
No cases of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing have been recorded by Tien Giang province’s fishing vessels since the beginning of 2022, thanks to the Mekong Delta locality’s efforts to step up communications work to raise fishermen’s awareness, according to the provincial Department of Fisheries.