There are various models, including the rotation of rice and shrimp in the same field, super-intensive shrimp farming, and rice farming called “3 reductions and 3 increases".

A man harvests prawn in his mixed rice-prawn farm in the Mekong Delta.

The province is expanding the models and will implement 132 for aquaculture, 18 for rice and other crops, and 28 for animals.

It will also supply 60,000 forestry seedlings to three forestry farming models on a total area of 70ha.

With this expansion, a total of slightly more than 62,000 farming households will be participating in the farming models.

Under the rice–shrimp farming model, farmers grow rice in the rainy season and breed shrimp in the dry season.

The model produces clean rice and shrimp, and has adapted well to climate change, especially in coastal areas.

The province, the country's largest shrimp producer, has 48,000ha of rice–shrimp farming area and about 278,000ha devoted to shrimp only.

Of the shrimp farming area, about 2,000ha are super-intensive shrimp farms, accounting for 42 per cent of the province’s total shrimp output.

Chau Cong Bang, deputy director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that many participating households have had profits of 500 – 600 million VND (21,460 – 25,750 USD) a year.

However, some localities have not chosen farming models suited to their soil and other natural conditions, so the expansion of the models has been slow.

In addition, some farmers have earned low profits, especially shrimp farming models, because of the poor quality of seed, disease outbreaks and poor weather, he said, adding that these households turned back to old farming methods.

To solve these problems, the provincial People’s Committee has asked the department to offer advanced farming techniques to participating farmers.

The People’s Committee has also encouraged the establishment of co-operatives in which farmers and companies work together to produce and sell goods.

Localities have been told to promote trading activities for agricultural products that have been certified and have a brand name.

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Source: VNA