Ca Mau to increase shrimp farming area
(vasep.com.vn) Farmers in Ca Mau province are encouraged to raise the area of shrimp farming in the last months of the year. Shrimp farming now accounted for nearly 90 percent out of the locality’s total fish aquaculture.
Through September 2013, local fish production was estimated to reach over 222,700 MT, increasing 5.4 percent from the same time of 2012 and completing 77.9 percent of yearly plan. The province has fish farming area of over 296,680 hectares including 266,725 hectares of shrimp farming and over 28,000 hectares of freshwater fish farming.