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Tien Giang province breeds more tra fish on alluvial areas

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang is developing intensive tra fish farming in alluvial areas along rivers to produce high quality fish for export.
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Tien Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Deltaprovince of Tien Giang is developing intensive tra fish farming inalluvial areas along rivers to produce high quality fish for export.

The province is using more than 120ha of groundarea along rivers to breed fish, mostly tra fish, according to theprovincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Tan Phong commune, which is an islet in the Tienriver, is one of the major areas for breeding tra fish in alluvialground areas in the province.

The commune has more than 60ha of alluvialground areas used to farm tra fish, accounting for 50 percent of theprovince total’s tra fish breeding area, according to Kieu Manh Quan,Secretary of Tan Phong commune’s Party Committee.

Cao Van Hoa, Deputy Director of theDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development, said todevelop tra fish breeding in alluvial ground areas, the province haspaid attention to zoning farming areas and transferring farming techniques forfarmers.

The province will also create favourableconditions for tra fish breeders to participate in the delta’sthree-tier cooperation plan for production of high-quality tra fishbreeds in the delta.

The cooperation plan, which was approved by theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development in March, aims to establishthree-tier tra fish breed production chains that produce about 50percent of the region’s demand of 2.2 – 2.5 billion fries a year by2020.       

The department has encouraged farmers tobreed tra fish under Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) standards.

The province has 51.4ha of tra fishbred under GAP standards, including 6.4ha under global GAP standards and 45haunder Vietnamese GAP standards. It also has 15.8ha bred under AquacultureStewardship Council (ASC) standards.

In Tien Giang, main tra fish breedingareas are in islets and alluvial ground areas along the Tien river in Cai Layand Cai Be districts.

The province plans to have about 180haof tra fish with an annual output of 67,000 tonnes by 2020.

Located downstream of the Tien River, atributary of the Mekong River, Tien Giang has a dense network of rivers andcanals which have advantages for aquaculture development.-VNA
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