The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, with its 32-km coastline, is well-positioned to develop a thriving seafood industry. Recognising the importance of sustainable offshore fishing, local authorities have implemented policies to modernise the fishing fleet and support operations in offshore waters.
Forty households in the traditional rice paper-making village in Hau Thanh commune, Cai Be district, Tien Giang province, have doubled their production to meet the increased demand for the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2025.
Like other ancient villages across the country, Dong Hoa Hiep village, located in Cai Be district, Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, has been selected as a focal point for rural tourism development.
Amid the global focus on sustainable development and climate change mitigation, the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has made significant strides in promoting green agriculture. This initiative aims to protect the environment, enhance product quality, and boost economic value, thereby strengthening competitiveness both domestically and internationally.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has taken solid steps to green up its agricultural sector towards the goal of protecting the environment and enhancing the quality, economic value and competitiveness of local farm produce.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committees at all levels in the southern province of Tien Giang have collaborated with agencies and organisations to speed up social security programmes, aiming to reduce the province's poverty rate to 0.87% this year, said Vice President of the provincial VFF Committee Huynh Van Hai.
As of early October, the southern province of Tien Giang had disbursed almost 3.8 trillion VND (over 153 million USD) in public investment, accounting for 76.3% of this year's target – about 4.97 trillion VND, reported the provincial Department of Planning and Investment.
All fishing boats in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have been equipped with vessel monitoring system (VMS), and the locality has also updated 100% of fishing vessel data in the National Fisheries Database (VN-Fishbase), according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Border Guard of the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang and relevant agencies have made every effort in encouraging fishermen to strictly comply with regulations on seafood exploitation at sea to ensure no violations relating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in foreign waters.
The Mekong Delta province of Tieng Giang has recorded no fishing boats infringing upon foreign waters since 2022 thanks to various solutions implemented by the locality, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Man has said.
Since 2022, the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has recorded no cases of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, thanks to the locality’s dissemination efforts, according to Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Man.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang plans to expand its Dong Thap Muoi Ecological Reserve to better biodiversity conservation and spur tourism development.
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.
Many cities and provinces in the Mekong Delta region have rolled out a host of solutions to support intellectual property and develop collective trademarks to raise economic value for agricultural products and specialties.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has recorded no violations related to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in 2023 and several previous years, thanks to the administration's efforts to raise fishermen’s awareness of consequences of IUU practices.
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 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