December 28, 2010

Aquatic breeding in Vietnam helps relieve poverty

Aquatic breeding is going to be one of the country's key production sectors which will contribute to the restructuring in agriculture and poverty reduction, according to the Directorate of Fisheries in Vietnam.

At a meeting to review the performance of fisheries sector in 2010 in Hanoi on December 24, the directorate's Deputy General Director, Pham Anh Tuan, said aquatic breeding is widely developing in many localities towards large-scale farms.

Breeding of seafood species which bring in high export values, include shrimp, basa and tra fish have been encouraged with large investment.

In the 2006-2010 period, aquatic breeding area and output posted average increases of 3.7% and 27% per year, respectively.

In 2010, the nation's aquatic breeding area is estimated at 1.1 million hectares and output, nearly at 2.8 million tonnes. Besides, the country also netted 2.4 million tonnes of seafood in 2010.

Vietnam has also actively cooperated with foreign countries in this field, Pham said.