(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The Department of Fisheries of Ca Mau province coordinated with the School of Fisheries under Can Tho University to organize training courses on high-tech shrimp farming for 120 people in processors, cooperatives and families that are raising intensive and super-intensive shrimp in the province.
The training includes: principles and methods of high-tech shrimp farming which is eco-friendly; reducing carbon emissions, adapting to climate change; food safety and sustainability; shrimp breeding and farming using bioflocs technology; super-intensive white-leg shrimp farming using CTU-RAS recirculating technology; water quality and environmental management of shrimp ponds; some common diseases and disease prevention solutions using herbs and microorganisms. In addition, there are discussions and sharing of practical experiences in shrimp farming among learners.
Ca Mau has a shrimp farming area of over 278,000 hectares; in which, intensive and super-intensive shrimp farming are over 6,500 hectares. In the past 3 years (2021, 2022, 2023), Ca Mau province annually exports over 230,000 tons of shrimp, with a turnover of over US$1 billion. Ca Mau shrimp are exported to 60 countries and territories, of which the main markets are the US, Japan, EU and China. Ca Mau's goal by 2030 is to achieve a seafood export turnover of US$1.65 billion, of which farmed shrimp is the main product and accounts for the majority of export turnover. To achieve the goal, organizing training to improve knowledge for intensive and super-intensive shrimp farmers is essential to gradually improve production efficiency, contributing to increasing farmed shrimp output as well as helping the shrimp industry develop sustainably.