Kien Giang, Vietnam: No worries about salinity thanks to a complete coastal irrigation system

Invest in a sewer system to regulate irrigation Kien Giang is a province with a rotational production model of one rice crop and one shrimp crop (rice - shrimp) growing quite strongly in the Mekong Delta, with a total area of nearly 100,000 hectares. In which, the area of people re-planting the 2022-2023 crop on shrimp farming land according to the plan of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is 68,450 hectares. The remaining area due to the sea border, long-term shrimp farming, the ground is contaminated with salt, unable to grow rice, farmers grow some salt-tolerant grasses to replace and help treat the environment. The districts of U Minh Thuong are the areas that are planned to convert production from monoculture of rice to rotation of rice - shrimp in Kien Giang province. In which, An Bien and An Minh districts account for most of the cultivated area under this model. In the 2022-2023 season, farmers in An Minh district plant rice on 23,000 hectares ...