Shrimp industry aims for low carbon and sustainability

SGGPO 10/26/2023 18:32

On October 26, in Bac Lieu province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) jointly organized a conference on developing a low-emission and sustainable shrimp industry in Vietnam.

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The rice-shrimp model is considered by experts to be a highly sustainable model, adaptable to climate change.

According to the national action plan for the development of Vietnam's shrimp industry, by 2025, the country will have a total brackish water shrimp farming area of 750,000 hectares; the total export value of shrimp products will reach 10 billion USD. However, in reality, in 2022, the brackish water shrimp farming area will reach 737,000 hectares, but the export value will only reach 4.3 billion USD.

Currently, the aquaculture industry has been facing many challenges such as: the impact of climate change; unstable market and fierce competition in the international arena. On the other hand, the farming scale of many households is still fragmented and small; aquaculture infrastructure is still limited and has not been invested synchronously.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, Director of the Department of International Cooperation (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is completing procedures to participate in the "Emirates Declaration on sustainable agriculture, resilient food systems and climate action", which is expected to be adopted at the COP28 conference in December 2023.

According to Mr. Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, the transformation of Vietnam's food system in general and the seafood value chain in particular towards green, low-carbon, sustainable and climate change-adaptive, integrating multi-value with a modern, transparent governance system associated with the process of close linkage between entities in the value chains is inevitable, contributing to the implementation of national strategies, action plans and international commitments of the agriculture and rural development sector.

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