date:Jul 09, 2014
Now it is the season of harvesting fish and shrimp raised in thousands of hectare ponds. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Thua Thien-Hue Province said that local farmers have a bumper harvest of shrimp, crabs and fish in 635 hectares of brackish water ponds.
Traders offered a price of VND170,000 -180,000 (US$8 - 8.47) a kilogram of shrimp and VND 150,000-180,000 a kilogram of eel fish for on-site purchases, bringing net profits of VND15 million - 20 million (US$705.9 - 9