A shrimp farm in My Xuyen district, the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang (Photo: VNA) Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien made the remark whileaddressing a teleconference held on December 10.
He said the free tradeagreements that Vietnam has joined will create chances for improving productionunder value chains and origin traceability.
Productivity and quality arethe key to promoting the competitiveness of shrimp products, Tien noted, addingthat relevant agencies and localities needs to pay attention to the input,especially young fry and infrastructure in the production chain.
Tran Cong Khoi, Deputy Directorof the Department of Aquaculture at the Directorate of Fisheries, said despitenumerous difficulties and challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’sfarming area of brackish water shrimp still expanded by 0.5 percent from 2020to 740,000ha, including 630,000ha of black tiger shrimp and 110,000ha of white-legshrimp.
Pointing out certain problemsand shortcomings, he held that localities need to step up inspection andexamination of food safety in aquaculture to ensure product quality.
In 2022, the sector willenhance connectivity among shrimp farming localities, take measures toconcurrently develop farming and cope with the pandemic, boost the application ofscientific and technological advances to raise productivity and quality, and increaseenvironmental monitoring to issue timely warnings in order to minimise damagecaused by climate change.
Total output of farmed shrimp this year is estimated at 970,000 tonnes, up 4.3 percent from 2020. Shrimp export earned the country 3.2 billion USD in the first 10 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 2 percent./.
VNA
