Developing the aquaculture production chain
In recent years, the agricultural and environmental sectors and localities in the province have created favorable conditions for the effective development and maintenance of aquaculture chains, increasing income for people in rural areas.
Mr. Hoang Van Hung, a member of the Ha Le Aquaculture Cooperative (An Thi) takes care of fish
Quyet Thang Specialty Fruit Cooperative, Tan Hung Commune (Hung Yen City) has 60 cages for raising several types of fish on the Red River such as: Grass carp, crispy carp, bagridae, red tilapia, tilapia, etc. To reduce costs in production and business, increase the competitiveness of products in the market, the Cooperative has performed well in providing animal feed, input materials and finding markets for products consumption. According to Mr. Tran Van My, Director of Quyet Thang Specialty Fruit Cooperative: Currently, the Cooperative has signed consumption contracts with a number of business kitchens, restaurants, and schools with a fish consumption output of 420 to 450 tons/year. In 2024, the total revenue from aquaculture activities of the Cooperative reaches over 30 billion VND, production costs decrease by about 10%, economic efficiency increases by about 15 - 20% compared to individual production and business.
In 2017, the Ha Le Commune Aquaculture Cooperative (An Thi) was established, gathering households raising aquatic products in the commune, forming a concentrated aquaculture area with an area of over 30 hectares, converting from extensive farming methods to intensive and semi-intensive farming for high economic efficiency. Not only supporting members with seeds, capital, human resources, and product output, the Cooperative also builds operation regulations for members in the farming area; carries out good technical measures, manages the quality of food, biological products, closely monitors the disease situation in aquaculture. Currently, the Cooperative is linking the consumption of commercial fish with a number of industrial kitchens, businesses providing food for business kitchens, schools in Yen My district, My Hao town... with a consumption output of about 20 tons of fish/month. Mr. Hoang Van Hung, a member of the Ha Le Commune Aquaculture Cooperative, shared: Joining the Cooperative, we are guided on market demand to develop a plan to select suitable aquatic species to raise, improving family economic efficiency. For my family, in the past 2 years, in addition to raising commercial aquatic products, I have renovated 1 hectare of pond to switch to raising red carp to serve the worshipping of the Land Genie and the Kitchen Gods. In 2024, the family's red carp output reached 8 tons with the selling price of Tam Duong red carp at 170 thousand VND/kg, yellow carp at 120 thousand VND/kg, 2 times higher than that of the same period last year, with favorable consumption.
Currently, the agricultural production chain in general and the aquaculture production chain in particular of the province are maintained in 2 typical forms: Linking along the product's path from producer to consumer (vertical linkage) and linking the subjects participating in the production - business process (horizontal linkage). Up to now, the whole province has built and maintained 202 linkage and chain production models; of which, the aquaculture production chain has 10 participating units, concentrated in Hung Yen city and the districts: An Thi, Phu Cu. According to the assessment of units operating in the aquaculture sector, the participation in production linkages contributes to reducing input costs by about 10%, increasing product value by an average of 15%; overcoming the situation of spontaneous production, being forced to lower prices by traders; promoting the application of science and technology in aquaculture.
To facilitate linkages in aquaculture production, every year, the provincial agriculture and environment sector and localities review and develop plans to convert ineffective rice fields to aquaculture. Up to now, the whole province has 10 concentrated aquaculture areas formed from the conversion areas in the province's aquaculture development planning such as: Hung Phat Aquaculture Cooperative (Phu Cu), Ha Le Commune Aquaculture Cooperative (An Thi), Bac Viet Mushroom Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd. (An Thi); 17 aquaculture cooperatives have been established... However, currently, the construction of aquaculture linkages in the province is facing some difficulties due to the rapid urbanization that has affected aquaculture areas and farms, making the linkages unsustainable. Safe aquatic products still have to compete unequally with traditional aquaculture products; business waste, domestic waste discharged into the environment, causing impacts on the aquaculture environment, affecting product quality...
In the coming time, the Department of Agriculture and Environment will continue to coordinate with localities to review and select a number of cooperatives, cooperative groups, and aquaculture households to transfer new aquaculture techniques, apply high technology, use biological products, be environmentally friendly, and limit the use of antibiotics to create safe and quality aquatic products. To encourage and facilitate the establishment of cooperatives, enterprises, and aquaculture cooperative groups to disseminate experiences, market information, new technical advances, and create a basis for signing contracts to build chains of links with enterprises in production and consumption of products.
