Vietnam: Strange story in Dong Thap, raising 2 specialties in rice fields, farmers collect billions of money
Frozen Snakehead
Frozen Crayfish
Rice
Vietnam
Published Apr 16, 2022
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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 given people an income of hundreds of millions to billions of dong per year. For 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 came back 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.
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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 earn 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 model has given income hundreds to billions of dong/year. In the Hong Ngu watershed, Dong Thap province, the model of raising wild fish, combining with giant freshwater prawn farming in rice fields by Mr. Bui Chi Nhan, cluster 2, An Binh B commune is being deployed for an income of up to billions of VND. from the very beginning. ...
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