Vietnam: In Thai Binh, tons of perch are oversized; farmers sell them as if they were throwing rocks

Mr. Nguyen Binh Trieu in hamlet 8, Minh Phu commune, Dong Hung district (Thai Binh) lamented that the perch "eats leopard", while the price of bran continuously increases, causing many households to raise perch like his family. like sitting on a fire. For many months now, hundreds of tons of perch have remained motionless in the pond. This school of oversized fish is also about to equal the time to raise a new batch of fish, making farmers cry silently, because they are burdened with a debt of loan money and feed. According to the perch farming households here, since the Covid-19 epidemic broke out again, the price of perch has "evaporated" by more than half compared to previous times. Currently, the price of perch is extremely low, only fluctuating at more than 20,000 VND/kg. The perch has been kept wet for many months, pushing hundreds of perch farming households in Thai Binh province into a situation of heavy losses and economic exhaustion. Even many households do not have ...