date:Dec 27, 2012
o for on-site purchases. This price, after cost deduction, brings a profit of some VND180 million, helping me offset the losses previously caused by massive shrimp deaths and continue farming next year.
The production cost is now over VND100,000 a kilo, while each kilo of white-legged shrimp costs VND70,000, said farmers in Tien Giang.
With an average output of five tons per hectare of tiger prawn and 8-10 tons a hectare of white-legged shrimp, farmers can earn VND300-500 million from each hec