The Mekong Delta localities have set a target of increasing the value oftheir aquatic products in 2014 to 46 trillion VND (2.16 billion USD),an increase of 4.1 percent against last year’s figure.
Accordingto Nguyen Phong Quang, deputy head of the Steering Committee for theSouthwestern Region, to realise the goal, the regional localities planto enlarge their aquaculture zone to nearly 800,000 ha, to raise theregion’s output to 2.4 million tonnes.
In the first fivemonths of this year, the localities assigned an area of nearly 400,000ha to farming and harvested over 1 million tonnes of products,equivalent to 42 percent of the plan set for the year, raking in 19trillion VND (893 million USD).
Main aquaticproducts of the region are prawn, white-leg shrimp, tra fish and otherfreshwater fish. Farming zones are concentrated in the provinces of CaMau, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre, An Giang, DongThap, Vinh Long and Can Tho city.
The localities expandedhatching models in line with the standards such as the SQF 1000CM (foodsafety and quality), the Vietnam Good Agricultural Practice (VietGap)and the Global Good Agricultural Practice (GlobalGAP), while focusing onimproving the quality of employees to serve the development of thesector.
Regional authorities paid attention to supporting enterprises inrenovating technology in order to diversify products and meet the strictrequirements of international markets.
The regionalso plans to upgrade its irrigation system for aquaculture activities,while intensifying the management of water environment in farming zones.
Meanwhile, the provinces put in place food safetymanagement systems and more thoroughly checked the origin of aquaticproducts as required by the world market. Trade promotion was alsoboosted.
Last year, the region reached 2.2 milliontonnes of aquaculture products, equivalent to 92.5 percent of the totaloutput of southern provinces, including 310,000 tonnes of prawn and over1 million tonnes of tra fish.-VNA
Accordingto Nguyen Phong Quang, deputy head of the Steering Committee for theSouthwestern Region, to realise the goal, the regional localities planto enlarge their aquaculture zone to nearly 800,000 ha, to raise theregion’s output to 2.4 million tonnes.
In the first fivemonths of this year, the localities assigned an area of nearly 400,000ha to farming and harvested over 1 million tonnes of products,equivalent to 42 percent of the plan set for the year, raking in 19trillion VND (893 million USD).
Main aquaticproducts of the region are prawn, white-leg shrimp, tra fish and otherfreshwater fish. Farming zones are concentrated in the provinces of CaMau, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre, An Giang, DongThap, Vinh Long and Can Tho city.
The localities expandedhatching models in line with the standards such as the SQF 1000CM (foodsafety and quality), the Vietnam Good Agricultural Practice (VietGap)and the Global Good Agricultural Practice (GlobalGAP), while focusing onimproving the quality of employees to serve the development of thesector.
Regional authorities paid attention to supporting enterprises inrenovating technology in order to diversify products and meet the strictrequirements of international markets.
The regionalso plans to upgrade its irrigation system for aquaculture activities,while intensifying the management of water environment in farming zones.
Meanwhile, the provinces put in place food safetymanagement systems and more thoroughly checked the origin of aquaticproducts as required by the world market. Trade promotion was alsoboosted.
Last year, the region reached 2.2 milliontonnes of aquaculture products, equivalent to 92.5 percent of the totaloutput of southern provinces, including 310,000 tonnes of prawn and over1 million tonnes of tra fish.-VNA
