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Sea grapes, a "poverty alleviation" and career change target for coastal fishermen

  • Thursday, 10:27 Day 21/06/2012
  • On July 30, 2008, Khanh Hoa Electronic Newspaper published an article: "Engineer Le Ben with Japanese seaweed". The new planting method - using covered floors with nets on abandoned industrial shrimp ponds is an innovation of Engineer Le Ben. According to this method, sea grapes are grown in plastic trays, lined with nylon containing nutritious sand. Then the seed trays are placed on shelves, stalls made of bamboo, wood, or stacked with bricks, stones, submerged at the bottom of the pond; using orchid nets to create a mobile roof to actively regulate the light and temperature of the seawater; combined with a pedal to create flow, increasing the amount of oxygen. Thanks to this, the seaweed has the conditions to absorb nutrients in the tray, without mixing with impurities from the bottom of the pond, at the same time the mobile cover net has the effect of overcoming the hot climate in Vietnam. On the other hand, with this method, harvesting seaweed is more convenient, the investment cost is low, so the product is highly competitive.

     

    Chuyển đổi nghề cho người dân ven biển

    Strategic vision
    Finding an outlet for seaweed is also a unique idea of ​​Engineer Le Ben, Deputy Director of Tri Tin Company Limited. Processing and exporting aquatic products including seaweed, and seaweed is a fresh food, so the technological process is very strict in terms of food safety and hygiene. According to Engineer Le Ben, seaweed grown in Vietnam has a yield of about 30 tons/ha. Sea grapes are very easy to grow, from planting to harvesting only 15 - 20 days. Tri Tin Company Limited is promoting trade with Japanese companies to export seaweed to Japan - a potential market for seaweed.

    Rong nho xóa đói giảm nghèo cho người dân

    Sea grapes - "hunger eradication and poverty reduction" plant
    According to the opinion of experts of Khanh Hoa Province Fisheries Association, any type of farming that people do not have to invest in food, only spend time taking care of and harvesting is considered a "hunger eradication and poverty reduction" suitable for poor coastal fishermen, and is also a replacement for giant tiger prawns in abandoned ponds.

    With the coastal potential of Khanh Hoa, sea grapes need to be developed to meet both domestic and export needs, which is also a new goal in the Aquaculture Development Program until 2010 and the following years of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Khanh Hoa Province.

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