date:Dec 27, 2012
tare of tiger prawn and VND200-250 million per hectare of white-legged shrimp.
According to the Tien Giang Sub-Directorate of Fisheries, the total shrimp farming area in the province is more than 5,000 hectares, including some 1,300 hectares of intensive and semi-intensive tiger prawn farming, nearly 1,700 hectares of white-legged shrimp farming and around 2,000 hectares of advanced extensive shrimp farming.
Some 3,300 hectares, or 65.2% of the total area, have been harvested with an output of