Many farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have escaped poverty by adapting to climate change and shifting from rice to maize or peanut cultivation as well as the breeding of goats and aquatic species.
Three ethnic Khmer handicraft villages in Tra Vinh province’s Tra Cu district have expanded over the last four years due to high demand and support from local authorities.
Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap have begun to use more than 3,000ha of low-yield rice fields for growing fruits and other crops this year.
Several dozen large-scale rice fields with areas of between 100 and
2,000 hectares have been put to use in the Mekong Delta for the ongoing
summer-autumn rice crop.