HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam couldbecome self-sufficient in parent shrimp production from now to 2020.
The country’s shrimp sector has so far heavily dependedon foreign markets, importing most of parent shrimp from the US, Singapore andThailand. It has stayed passive in preventing diseases for parent shrimp.
Therefore, the successful production of parentshrimp by the Vietnam-Australia Group is expected to open up opportunities forthe sector to become self-sufficient in the work.
At a launching ceremony of the group’s parentshrimp programme in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11, a representative said theoutcome was attributed to the application of technology and careful selectionfor many years to create disease-free and high-quality parent shrimp.
The group is now able to produce 50 billionbreeding shrimp per year, accounting for 25 percent of the total breedingshrimp in the country.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Vu Van Tam said the shrimp industry aims to gross 10 billion USD inexports by 2025 and produce 1.1 million tonnes of shrimp on 750,000 hectares.To realise this goal, Vietnam needs about 500,000-600,000 parent shrimp.
Particularly, Vietnam has big demand forrapid-growth and disease-resistant black tiger and white-leg shrimp forextensive farming to create a huge amount of products which are able to meetstrict requirements on food safety and quarantine from markets.
The ministry is implementing a national actionplan to develop Vietnam’s shrimp industry through 2025 and a project to developnational brackish shrimp products, he noted-VNA
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Processing shrimp for exports (Photo VNA)
