Vietnam: Soc Trang's farmers collect money when farming shrimp in rice fields

Soc Trang is a province with a large area of brackish water shrimp farming, with more than 50,000 ha/year, diversified in farming forms, such as: semi-intensive, intensive, super-intensive shrimp farming or shrimp-rice-shrimp farming. shrimp - forest. In particular, the shrimp-rice model is considered a sustainable farming model of many households in My Xuyen district (Soc Trang). Therefore, in order to support local people to develop the shrimp-rice model, improve the living standards and income of households, the National Center for Agricultural Extension in collaboration with Soc Trang Agricultural Extension Center has implemented the shrimp model. - rice, with an area of 15ha, in 15 households in Ngoc Dong commune, My Xuyen district. To learn about the effectiveness of the shrimp-rice combination model in Ngoc Dong commune, My Xuyen district, supported by the National Center for Agricultural Extension in collaboration with the Soc Trang Agricultural Extension Center, we came ...