The project will help residents in the two communes reduce the waste they release daily from 75 to 80 per cent.

Coastal aquaculture is being developed in many localities but the output is very small compared to the country’s potential, experts have said.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh has encouraged farmers to breed more goats that meet biosafety standards and use bio-products to treat goat waste. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field. 

Nha Trang City has set aside a zone covering 70ha of surface water in Nha Trang Bay for cage aquaculture, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

The Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) province of Đồng Tháp plans to release floodwaters into 90,200ha of rice fields in this year’s rainy season to fertilise the soil and flush away rice disease pathogens.

When Nguyễn Văn Long was 26 years old, he moved to Năm Bầu Islet in the middle of a lake in the southern province of Đồng Nai. Nothing unusual about that, but at the time he was the only person there. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s 12 provinces and Cần Thơ City have achieved good results in the national target programme on new - style rural area building, with rural incomes and living conditions improving considerably.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to adapt to low levels of flooding this year by switching to new crops and using other cultivation methods. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has harvested more than 130,000 tonnes of aquatic species so far this year, up 15 per cent from the same period last year, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.