Harvesting white-legged shrimp bred using the two-stage industrial farming model in Kien Giang province’s An Minh district (Photo: VNA)Kien Giang (VNS/VNA) - TheMekong Delta province of Kien Giang plans to increase the area under industrialand semi-industrial shrimp farming models to 3,200ha and annual output to28,000 tonnes this year, according to its Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment.
Quang Trong Thao, deputydirector of the department, said to ensure safe, sustainable and efficientshrimp farming, the province would carefully monitor the farming environmentand outbreak of diseases to promptly address problems.
The province is carrying out aplan to proactively monitor for diseases in shrimp farming areas in Kien Luongdistrict’s Binh Tri commune, a major industrial shrimp farming area in theprovince, and will later create a shrimp farming area free of white spot,yellow head and taura diseases in the commune.
The province, one of thedelta’s largest shrimp producers, is setting up 44 sites to demonstrate theindustrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming models. Farmers can visit them tolearn how to practice the models.
The province will also teachfarmers shrimp farming techniques that use advanced technologies and waterefficiently and Vietnamese good agricultural practices (VietGAP) standards,according to the department.
It will act as a link forshrimp farmers to tie up with companies to ensure they can sell their outputand invest in infrastructure required for industrial and semi-industrial shrimpfarming.
It will instal athree-phase power supply system in Kien Luong, An Bien and An Minh districts tomeet the requirements of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farmers.
Ha Tien city will dredgeirrigation canals to ensure there is adequate water supply for aquaculture.
Farmers in the province have sofar harvested 700ha of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp this year,producing 3,632 tonnes.
Last year they had producedmore than 24,800 tonnes on 2,850ha, including more than 950ha under thetwo-stage industrial farming model.
Under the model, juvenileshrimp are raised in a nursery pond for a few weeks in the first phase and thentransferred to a main pond for breeding.
The pond beds are covered withplastic sheets and nets are hung above to keep out sunlight. Ponds are alsoequipped with oxygenation facilities.
This model provides highincomes for farmers and processors and protects the environment sincewastewater is treated before being released into the environment.
In Hon Dat district’s Tho Son commune,many farmers have successfully adopted it.
Mai Van Nhuong of Tho Son’s HonQueo hamlet was one of first, having tried it during the last shrimp crop.
He earned more than 200 millionVND (8,600 USD) from farming shrimp in a 2,000sq.m pond, he said.
The model is efficient sincethe shrimp contract few diseases and require less tending than in traditionalmodels, he said.
“Thanks to modern facilities,farmers can easily manage the environment.”
Vo Thanh Binh of the Tho SonCommune Economy - Agricultural Technique Division said traditional methodsrequire a lot of time and labour to renovate ponds after each crop.
Farmers cannot manage foodresidues and other waste in their shrimp ponds and the animals are easilyaffected by diseases whereas under the two-stage industrial shrimp farmingmodel they can actively manage these problems and improve the shrimp survival rate,he added./.
Quang Trong Thao, deputydirector of the department, said to ensure safe, sustainable and efficientshrimp farming, the province would carefully monitor the farming environmentand outbreak of diseases to promptly address problems.
The province is carrying out aplan to proactively monitor for diseases in shrimp farming areas in Kien Luongdistrict’s Binh Tri commune, a major industrial shrimp farming area in theprovince, and will later create a shrimp farming area free of white spot,yellow head and taura diseases in the commune.
The province, one of thedelta’s largest shrimp producers, is setting up 44 sites to demonstrate theindustrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming models. Farmers can visit them tolearn how to practice the models.
The province will also teachfarmers shrimp farming techniques that use advanced technologies and waterefficiently and Vietnamese good agricultural practices (VietGAP) standards,according to the department.
It will act as a link forshrimp farmers to tie up with companies to ensure they can sell their outputand invest in infrastructure required for industrial and semi-industrial shrimpfarming.
It will instal athree-phase power supply system in Kien Luong, An Bien and An Minh districts tomeet the requirements of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farmers.
Ha Tien city will dredgeirrigation canals to ensure there is adequate water supply for aquaculture.
Farmers in the province have sofar harvested 700ha of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp this year,producing 3,632 tonnes.
Last year they had producedmore than 24,800 tonnes on 2,850ha, including more than 950ha under thetwo-stage industrial farming model.
Under the model, juvenileshrimp are raised in a nursery pond for a few weeks in the first phase and thentransferred to a main pond for breeding.
The pond beds are covered withplastic sheets and nets are hung above to keep out sunlight. Ponds are alsoequipped with oxygenation facilities.
This model provides highincomes for farmers and processors and protects the environment sincewastewater is treated before being released into the environment.
In Hon Dat district’s Tho Son commune,many farmers have successfully adopted it.
Mai Van Nhuong of Tho Son’s HonQueo hamlet was one of first, having tried it during the last shrimp crop.
He earned more than 200 millionVND (8,600 USD) from farming shrimp in a 2,000sq.m pond, he said.
The model is efficient sincethe shrimp contract few diseases and require less tending than in traditionalmodels, he said.
“Thanks to modern facilities,farmers can easily manage the environment.”
Vo Thanh Binh of the Tho SonCommune Economy - Agricultural Technique Division said traditional methodsrequire a lot of time and labour to renovate ponds after each crop.
Farmers cannot manage foodresidues and other waste in their shrimp ponds and the animals are easilyaffected by diseases whereas under the two-stage industrial shrimp farmingmodel they can actively manage these problems and improve the shrimp survival rate,he added./.
VNA
