Raising wild fish and giant freshwater shrimp in rice fields in the flood season, farmers in Dong Thap province in Vietnam "pocket" billions of dong

Frozen Common Shrimp & Prawn

Rice

Vietnam

Published Nov 7, 2021

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For the people upstream of An Giang and Dong Thap provinces, every year floods come not only with aquatic resources but also with silt and cleaning of fields. This year, the water returned late and was lower than the average for many years, so many upstream farmers lost their income when catching wild fish from the Mekong River. However, many people in the upstream area have actively adapted and changed the farming model to suit the changes in the water.

Original content

For the people upstream of An Giang and Dong Thap provinces, every year floods come not only with aquatic resources, but also with silt and cleaning of fields. This year, the water returned late and was lower than the average for many years, so many upstream farmers lost their income when catching wild fish from the Mekong River. However, many people in the upstream area have actively adapted and changed the farming model to suit the changes of the water. For example, the model of raising wild fish, combining giant freshwater shrimp in rice fields or releasing snakehead fish in the months when water comes back has generated hundreds of millions of VND in income, typically, some households collect billions of VND/year. No more busy scenes of spreading nets, laying roofs to catch fish and shrimp following the flood from the Mekong River as before, now in the fields there have appeared models of fish farming combined with crayfish farming in rice fields. or snakehead fish farming ...

Source: Danviet