Ca Mau targets $1 bln seafood export this year
VGP - The southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to make a seafood output of 380,000 tons and seafood export turnovers of US$1 billion in 2013.
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This year, Ca Mau is boosting aquaculture of white-legged shrimps and prawns on an industrial scale. It currently has 5,000 ha of large-scale shrimp and prawn raising farms with an average productivity of 5 tons per hectare. The productivity of white-legged shrimps is 8 tons per hectare.
Ca Mau is centering on ensuring supply of 80% of clean baby shrimps and prawns to breeders, transferring modern farming techniques to farmers and ensuring bank loans for them to promote the development of household-based economy.
By Ngoc Van