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

Published 2022년 11월 6일

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Kien Giang province in the Mekong Delta is adopting a rice-shrimp cultivation model over 100,000 hectares of land, with an investment in a sewer system of 18 sluices on sea and coastal dykes from 2019 to 2023. This system aims to regulate irrigation, protect agricultural production, adapt to climate change, and improve living standards. The rice-shrimp model not only provides a clean environment for shrimp farming but also allows for the irrigation system to regulate fresh and brackish water sources, benefiting both crops. The province is also promoting organic production and increasing the certified rice production area.

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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 ...

Source: Agriculture