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Wednesday- 14:46, 17/11/2021

Kien Giang strongly shifting to fisheries economy

(VAN) In recent years, Kien Giang Province's agricultural sector has shifted strongly to develop the fishery economy, bringing high income to producers.

According to Kien Giang Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, when restructuring its agricultural sector and implementing the Government’s Resolution 120, the province has strongly shifted to develop fisheries economy, which generated high efficiency. Focusing on reorganizing production following value chains, improving efficiency, in the 2016-2020 period, the production value of the province’s fishery industry grew by an average of more than 6 per cent per year.

Tens of thousands of hectares of rice land that is inefficient or cannot access water supply has been converted into shrimp growing areas or shrimp-rice combined model. Photo: Trung Chanh.

Tens of thousands of hectares of rice land that is inefficient or cannot access water supply has been converted into shrimp growing areas or shrimp-rice combined model. Photo: Trung Chanh.

Specifically, tens of thousands of hectares of rice production land that is inefficient or cannot access water supply has been converted into shrimp growing areas or shrimp-rice combined model, bringing high efficiency. In 2015, the province's shrimp-rice production area was nearly 78,000 hectares, with the shrimp output being more than 31,000 tons. Until 2020, the shrimp-rice production area increased to 100,000 ha and the shrimp output of 47,000 tons. The conversion of the inefficient rice production area to the shrimp-rice model has brought high economic efficiency to producers. Their average income increased from VND50 million/ha to VND100 - 130 million/ha.

The province developed industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming with an increase of more than 50 per cent in the area and nearly 87 per cent in output by 2020 compared to those of 2015. Specifically, increasing the farming area from 2,132ha with an output of nearly 15,000 tons to 3,200ha with an output of 28,000 tons.

Caged-fish farming at sea also saw a sharp increase from 2,613 cages and an output of 1,900 tons in 2015 to 4,500 cages and an output of 3,555 tons in 2020.

The fishery economy is gradually becoming a key economic sector in Kien Giang’s agriculture sector.

In the fishery sector, small-capacity vessels and coastal fishing are replaced with large-capacity vessels and offshore fishing,  which help further protect marine resources and national maritime sovereignty and security.

Authors: D.T Chanh - Trong Linh

Translated by Hien Anh

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