Dong Thap exploits the value of crayfish

Product Information : Product Type :  crayfish Origin              :  Dong Thap - Vietnam Weight             : 15 - 20 animals/kg

Dong Thap province has been planning and stabilizing the raw material area for crayfish production in Tam Nong and Cao Lanh districts... Creating competitiveness and expanding the export market.

Crayfish have high nutritional value and great commercial value. Therefore, dishes crayfish are always popular, are good foods to supplement nutrients and especially provide calcium to users.

Thanks to outstanding characteristics such as high economic value, stable market, low risk, suitable for many combined farming models, in recent years, crayfish have increasingly attracted farmers.Especially crayfish are concentrated in Dong Thap province. The development of crayfish farming in Dong Thap is becoming a strength after rice and fish crops over the years, many areas of rice cultivation have become shrimp fields.

Many crayfish farmers in Dong Thap province have implemented farming methods using biological products, initially bringing quite high efficiency and stable profits. This model is being replicated in many localities.

Tam Nong District (Dong Thap) has implemented the project of organic rice production and crayfish farming according to VietGAP process in the period of 2014 - 2020 to carry out restructuring for crayfish industry. The project aims at modern, sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural production.

In Tam Nong district, raw materials have been formed in the direction of focusing production associated with the consumption of good quality, clean, stable and sustainable products; register logo, exclusive brand of Tam Nong crayfish; sign contracts with enterprises to purchase shrimp at prices beneficial to farmers. The province promotes trade promotion, bringing the crayfish cooperative model associated with the technology transfer model, stabilizing product procurement for farmers.

In Tam Nong district, the communes with a lot of stocking area are Phu Thanh B, Phu Tho, An Long and Tram Chim town. The shrimp farming area of the district is constantly increasing, the average yield is 1.3 - 1.6 tons / ha. Farming crayfish on floating water fields helps to increase the rotation of the soil to 2-3 times / year, increase fertility and land use value, reduce soil degradation, protect the environment ...

In Cao Lanh district, over the years, the area and output of crayfish farming area are constantly increasing. Shrimp farmers have been invested in the direction of intensive cultivation to improve product quality and increase profits.

Thanks to technical support and interest in infrastructure investment, the productivity and profitability of crayfish farming in Cao Lanh district is quite high. Cao Lanh district identified this as a specialized crayfish farming project area on rice land, affirming economic efficiency.

The development of crayfish farming should be concerned is the quality of seedlings and commercial shrimp output. Because the stocking needs a lot of shrimp seedlings but due to the lack of breeding sources, people buy shrimp of unknown origin leading to the low survival rate, selling price and profitability are also low.For commercial shrimp to the harvesting period almost entirely depends on the trade. Therefore, the regeneration and restoration of aquatic resources and ecosystems is very important, in which the stocking of crayfish to regenerate the herds of aquatic species in domestic freshwater waters should be given special attention, in order to restore and regenerate the fishery resources that are increasingly being exploited; at the same time, provide a part of the food source with high nutritional value, clean, safe.

Dong Thap province has planned and built many models of eco-shrimp farming, micro-shrimp farming, clean shrimp farming with the goal of improving the quality of crayfish, creating competitiveness in the market, expanding the export market. The exported crayfish products will be diversified such as raw crayfish, ice marinated shrimp and frozen shrimp for some potential markets such as China and some ASEAN countries.

On that basis, the province will study and determine consumption needs, supply capacity, main product consumption channels; develop and implement communication programs, introduce products, connect the market of product consumption and raw material supply area ...