A farmer in Ca Mau Province checks the quality of crabs before packing them for sales. The province is seeking to develop crab farming to achieve output of US$100 million by 2020.—VNA/VNS Photo Huynh Anh The southernmost province of Ca Mau is aiming to develop crab farming to make the crustacean its second biggest aquatic export after brackish shrimp. Last December the province unveiled a programme to boost sea crab farming to VND2.3 trillion (US$101 million) worth of harvests a year by 2020. The crab farming area will be expanded to 100,000ha by 2020 with average productivity of 70-80 kilogrammes per hectare and annual output of 12 trillion tonnes. Ca Mau has many advantages that aid its aquaculture plans including the sea on three sides, a coastline of 254km and 87 river mouths. It also has 100,000ha of mangrove forests, which are a good habitat for raising shrimp, fish and crab. Crab farming has been growing in the Cuu Long (Mekong) delta for the last two decades and generates good incomes for people in Ca Mau, Tra Vinh, Kien Giang, Soc Trang, and Ben Tre provinces. The biggest wholesale crab market in the delta is located in Nam Can District in Ca Mau. The market attracts hundreds of traders every day who come to buy crab and other seafood coming from the province and neighbouring areas. There are around 50 local traders who pay a total of VND3 billion to buy 15 tonnes of crab on average per day. Another… [Read full story]
HCM CITY — The southernmost province of Ca Mau hopes to increase seafood exports by 11.8 per cent next year to US$850 million, local officials said. To achieve the target, the province will tackle the current raw-material shortage by zoning 10,000 ha for breeding tiger prawns by 2015. By next year it will also expand the area under prawn farming from1,500ha to 2,800ha. It will also continue to promote various prawn-farming models like extensive farming and rice-shrimp cultivation, organic farming, and others, and advanced technologies to increase output. Ca Mau is home to 34 seafood processing plants with a total…... [read more]
PetroVietnam to have DPM manage Ca Mau fertilizer plantBy Thu Thuy - The Saigon Times DailyNguyen Xuan Thang, chairman of DPM, said in the press meeting on Thang declined to give full details, explaining that the contract had yet finished so he could not elaborate further.In the general meeting of DPM in late March, shareholders strongly opposed a plan by the country’s leading urea fertilizer producer to acquire the US$900-million fertilizer project from its big shareholder PetroVietnam, saying such an ambitious plan needs prudent consideration.Ca Mau fertilizer plant in the southernmost province of the same name is expected to start…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - This 300-year-old land is the ending point of the S-shaped Vietnam. Ca Mau Cape, 180 kilometers from Ca Mau City, is the only place in Vietnam where people can see both ocean sunrise and sunset in one day. A place where humans and nature co-exist in harmony, Ca Mau is dotted with bird parks, swamplands, channels and forests. With its dense rivers and canals system, Ca Mau is home to well-known forests: U Minh forest and Nam Can forest. Its interlacing rivers and canals have generated tangled flows in the province. Some offshore islands are Hon Da…... [read more]
At the event, organizers presented 70 bicycles and five education packets from AIA Vietnam Life Insurance Co., Ltd (VND20 million each), worth VND225 million in total, to disadvantaged local students. Ca Mau is the eleventh beneficiary of 2017's program after localities of Vinh Phuc, Hai Duong, Hai Phong, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Kon Tum, Phu Yen, and Binh Thuan.Photo: Thanh Ngan “With all the bikes donated to unprivileged children, we hope their long way to school will be less arduous. We believe this contribution will bring them more opportunities to continue their education for a better future,…... [read more]
Coastal forests in Ca Mau province’s Ngoc Hien district (Photo: VNA)Ca Mau (VNA) - Authorities in the southernmost province of Ca Mau have taken emergency measures to protect coastal forestsagainst climate change and destruction caused by humans.Meteorologists have warned thatclimate change would cause large areas of forests along the coast to disappearever year.According to the Department ofAgriculture and Rural Development’s division to combat natural disaster, in thepast decade Ca Mau lost 300-400ha of protective forests per year. The area offorest lost since 1989 is 5,000-6,000ha, which is equivalent to an averagecommune.Nguyen Ngoc Tien, chairman of theNgoc Hien district People’s Committee,…... [read more]
