Farmers harvest tra fish in Thanh Binh district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hasapproved a three-tier cooperation plan for production of high-quality tra fishbreeds in the Mekong Delta from now to 2025.
The 597 billion VND (26.2 million USD) plan calls for tra fish breeding chainsto produce about 50 percent of the Mekong Delta’s demand of 2.2–2.5 billionhigh-quality fries a year by 2020.
By 2050, the production chains would supply 100 percent of the Delta’s demandof 2.5–3 billion high-quality fries a year.
The first of the three tiers includes research institutes and universities thatuse advanced techniques in selecting tra fish breeders, using tra fish breedingproduction techniques and transferring the techniques to the second tier.
The second tier includes provincial tra fish breed producing centres,companies’ tra fish breed nurseries, while the third-tier includesestablishments that nurse tra fish from the newborn to fingerling stages.
[An Giang expands material tra fish farming area]
The plan will upgrade the An Giang high-quality tra fish breed centre andestablish three concentrated tra fish breed production areas in An Giang province.
Four concentrated tra fish breed production areas in Dong Thap province willalso be set up.
In the Delta, there are 108 tra fish artificial reproduction establishments and1,900 households that nurse newborn tra fish to the fingerling stage, mostlylocated in An Giang and Dong Thap provinces, and Can Tho city.
There are about 101,000 tra fish breeders (mature female/male) aged 6-7 yearsthat produce fish fries in tra fish artificial reproduction establishments inthe Delta, according to the Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 2.
The delta is now facing a shortage of tra fish fries because of unfavourableweather conditions and small-scale production. - VNA
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