• Digital agriculture creates space for sustainable development
  • Digital technology - The key to expanding the agricultural market
  • Priority support for products serving agricultural production
  • The “key” to sustainable agricultural development

Recirculating shrimp farming - New direction

Ca Mau is known as the "shrimp capital", with a shrimp farming area of ​​nearly 427,000 hectares, accounting for 57% of the country's area. The shrimp industry is identified as a key economic sector, helping many farmers change their lives in their homeland. However, shrimp farmers have often struggled due to crop failures, falling prices, and diseases...

Faced with the above situation, to sustainably develop the shrimp industry, especially to meet shrimp export standards by 2050 - Net Zero CO2 emissions, Ca Mau has applied RAS shrimp farming technology (closed circulation super-intensive shrimp farming) to reduce risks, increase profits and protect the environment.

The shrimp-forest ecological model is increasingly expanding in area in Phan Ngoc Hien Commune. (Photo: Huynh Lam)

Mr. Truong Minh Ut, Deputy Head of the Department of Fisheries, said: “RAS technology has the advantage of limiting waste discharge, protecting the environment, with an average yield of 22-25 tons/ha/crop, and saving input costs... The goal in 2025 is for the province to deploy the RAS model on an area of ​​1,000 hectares and continue to develop it in the following years. This model is suitable for the trend of green economy and circular economy to integrate into the world market by 2050.”

Organic rice brings more profit

In the recent summer-autumn rice crop, more than 200 rice-growing households in Lang Tron Ward were extremely excited because they achieved high profits. The clean rice and organic rice production model implemented by the Lang Tron High-Quality Clean Agricultural Products Cooperative in coordination with Misun Group Corporation since the beginning of 2024 has created this difference.

When the price of rice in the province dropped sharply during the summer-autumn crop, in some places it was only about 4,800-5,000 VND/kg, people participating in this model were guaranteed rice at a stable price of 11,000 VND/kg.

Currently, 100% of rice growing areas are mechanized in the stages of land preparation, water pumping, and harvesting with combine harvesters.

Earning a profit of nearly 50 million VND with only 1 hectare of organic rice land is an unexpected result for Mrs. Tran Thi Kiem's ​​family (Hamlet 15, Lang Tron Ward). Mrs. Kiem excitedly said: "After decades of growing rice, this crop has achieved such a high profit. Not only is the selling price high, but the company also supports all seeds, machinery, and biological products... When harvesting, the company only takes 35%, the remaining 65% is enjoyed by the people".

Ca Mau not only has a large rice cultivation area, with more than 300,000 hectares planted annually, but also has suitable weather, soil and water conditions to produce high quality rice according to VietGAP, GlobalGAP safety standards, Vietnamese organic standards (TCVN 11047: 2015) and international standards (USDA, EU, JAS).

Mechanization – The driving force for increased production efficiency

In addition to developing models of clean shrimp and rice production that adapt to climate change and contribute to environmental protection, equipment, mechanization, high technology and digital transformation are also strongly deployed in the fields in Ca Mau, creating a completely new agricultural picture.

Ms. Le Kieu Hieu, Deputy Head of the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection, Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection of the province, said: "Up to now, the rate of rice cultivation area mechanized in the stages of land preparation, water pumping, and harvesting by combine harvesters has reached 100%; spraying pesticides by engine sprayers and drones has reached 95%; sowing and fertilizing by seed sprayers and drones has reached about 15-20%..."

High-tech shrimp farming model in Phan Ngoc Hien Commune. (Photo: Huynh Lam)

"Applying synchronous mechanization to agricultural production is one of the important solutions that localities and farmers in the province are actively implementing. Thereby, it not only helps to liberate labor, increase productivity on the same cultivated area, but also gradually moves towards modern, comprehensive and sustainable agriculture," Ms. Hieu commented.

Global economic integration and complex climate change are causing many difficulties and challenges for the province's agricultural sector. Along with that is the increasingly high demand of the market for the quality of agricultural products . Therefore, small-scale and fragmented production methods will become increasingly difficult. To fully exploit the potential and strengths, enhance the position of Ca Mau's agriculture, the transition from traditional production methods to applying high technology, producing clean, high-quality products, adapting to climate change is an inevitable and effective step.

The goal of the provincial agricultural sector in 2025 is to achieve GRDP growth of 5.1%. To realize this goal, the sector is synchronously implementing many solutions, especially promoting the application of science, technology, digital transformation, mechanization in production, organizing production in the direction of linkage... industries with potential strengths to create breakthroughs in output and quality./.

Nguyen Phu

Source: https://baocamau.vn/chien-luoc-xanh-hoa-nong-nghiep-de-hoi-nhap-a123177.html