The aquatic sector has been deemed the top development priority ofthe southernmost province of Ca Mau with a targeted 800,000-900,000tonnes in output and 1.8 billion USD in exports by 2020.
Promotion activities in the sector have been designed to raise localper capita income to 1,600 USD in 2015 and 3,000 USD by 2020.
The province plans to focus on transferring science and technology aswell as developing breeding, offshore fishing, and exports.
Training courses offered by the provincial Department of Agricultureand Rural Development and Department of Science and Technology will helplocal farmers improve their awareness and understanding of aquaculturetechniques. Outstanding individuals will be sent to other localities inVietnam and abroad to learn about effective farming models.
Ca Mau currently boasts 500 farms supplying 7 billion juvenile shrimp ayear and meeting 30 percent of demand. It targets to raise therespective figures to 1,000 farms, 18 billion juvenile shrimp, and 70percent of demand by 2020.
Meanwhile, the provinceplans to hasten the implementation of Government Decree 67 onencouraging fishermen to build high-capacity steel offshore fishingships and develop fishery logistics services concurrently to ensureefficiency.
Promotional activities will alsobe intensified abroad to boost exports. Local seafood is currentlyexported to more than 50 countries and territories around the world.
At present, Ca Mau has 290,000 hectares of land used for aquacultureand nearly 4,000 fishing boats generating an average annual output of480,000 tonnes, though the output is widely believed to be far below itspotential.
The province saw an aquatic output of490,000 tonnes in 2014, the highest output recorded and representing anannual increase of 10.3 percent.
Roughly180,000 tonnes were processed for export, bringing home 1.3 billionUSD—a 200 million USD increase from a year earlier, Director of theprovincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Van Sutold the Vietnamese News Agency in a separate report.
Ca Mau boats a coastline of more than 254 kilometres, equivalent toone third of the Mekong Delta’s coastline, and a fishing ground of71,000 square kilometres considered to be one of the four key fishinggrounds in Vietnam, according to the province’s portal.-VNA
Promotion activities in the sector have been designed to raise localper capita income to 1,600 USD in 2015 and 3,000 USD by 2020.
The province plans to focus on transferring science and technology aswell as developing breeding, offshore fishing, and exports.
Training courses offered by the provincial Department of Agricultureand Rural Development and Department of Science and Technology will helplocal farmers improve their awareness and understanding of aquaculturetechniques. Outstanding individuals will be sent to other localities inVietnam and abroad to learn about effective farming models.
Ca Mau currently boasts 500 farms supplying 7 billion juvenile shrimp ayear and meeting 30 percent of demand. It targets to raise therespective figures to 1,000 farms, 18 billion juvenile shrimp, and 70percent of demand by 2020.
Meanwhile, the provinceplans to hasten the implementation of Government Decree 67 onencouraging fishermen to build high-capacity steel offshore fishingships and develop fishery logistics services concurrently to ensureefficiency.
Promotional activities will alsobe intensified abroad to boost exports. Local seafood is currentlyexported to more than 50 countries and territories around the world.
At present, Ca Mau has 290,000 hectares of land used for aquacultureand nearly 4,000 fishing boats generating an average annual output of480,000 tonnes, though the output is widely believed to be far below itspotential.
The province saw an aquatic output of490,000 tonnes in 2014, the highest output recorded and representing anannual increase of 10.3 percent.
Roughly180,000 tonnes were processed for export, bringing home 1.3 billionUSD—a 200 million USD increase from a year earlier, Director of theprovincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Van Sutold the Vietnamese News Agency in a separate report.
Ca Mau boats a coastline of more than 254 kilometres, equivalent toone third of the Mekong Delta’s coastline, and a fishing ground of71,000 square kilometres considered to be one of the four key fishinggrounds in Vietnam, according to the province’s portal.-VNA
