Kien Giang: striving to yield 56 thousand MT of farmed shrimp in 2015
(vasep.com.vn) According to Mr. Quang Trong Thao, Deputy Director of Kien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in 2014, brackish water shrimp was reared in the area of 90,563 hectares with the yield of 51,430 MT, up 9,452 MT equivalent to 22.5% up year on year. Intensive and semi-intensive shrimp farming area was 1,915 hectares. These farms produced 19,811 MT of shrimp, nearly all of them are whiteleg shrimp.
Kien Giang has made its plan to rear brackish water shrimp in the total area of 90,000 hectares in 2015, striving to achieve output of 56,000 MT of raw shrimp.