They include farming shrimp or saline resistant crops in the dry season in their rice fields.
In My Xuyen district, farmers have adopted the shrimp – rice farming model on an area of 17,500ha, the largest in the province.
The model has been adopted in coastal areas for many years. It sees farmers growing rice in the rainy season and breeding shrimp in the dry season on the same fields. Both are clean since the farmers use little pesticide or chemical./.
