Farming clean shrimp with herbs: Sustainable development, increasing profits

Vietnam is a country with strengths in aquaculture and seafood processing for export. In particular, the shrimp farming industry is creating a "push" for people and businesses to develop.

However, at present, shrimp farming is not really sustainable and has many potential risks. So what is the cause? Mr. Phan Thanh Thien , General Director of Truong Sinh International Scientific Development Co., Ltd. shared about the risks as well as orientation for the shrimp farming industry to develop more sustainably.

The seafood industry in general and shrimp farming in particular are facing difficult problems such as: Exported shipments are returned due to poor product quality, as well as damages caused by diseases are still at a low level. high. As a large enterprise in the seafood industry, how do you assess the risks that shrimp farming is facing, sir?

In my opinion, export shipments are returned due to poor product quality, as well as damage caused by diseases caused by many different causes. Regarding the objective reasons, it may be due to climate change, complicated weather situation such as hot sun, prolonged heavy rain on a large scale, saltwater intrusion, erratic temperature changes, etc. have affected. directly to the ecosystem, growth and productivity of shrimp.

Regarding subjective reasons, many people still mostly raise shrimp in the traditional way, have not converted and invested much in farming models and techniques. Meanwhile, shrimp farming requires a great deal of knowledge, practical experience and good techniques. In addition, people have farming habits that easily lead to unproductive shrimp such as: raising shrimp at too high a density, overusing a lot of antibiotic chemicals, causing drug resistance, degradation of the farming environment, etc.

To limit shrimp infection and increase the success rate of the crop, what measures should we take in accordance with the current context, sir?

“Reaching water before raising shrimp” and “prevention is better than cure” are sayings that I always keep in mind at all times. In fact, during the shrimp farming process, most people have not paid attention to the problem of disease prevention for shrimp. Prevention is very important otherwise shrimp are susceptible to diseases, which are difficult to treat and expensive.

In addition, many people choose to prevent diseases with antibiotics, leading to drug resistance, slow growth of shrimp, affecting productivity and quality of the crop. So our measure right now is to prevent the disease in a sustainable way.

Accordingly, people need to use herbs and biological products to replace antibiotic chemicals, thereby helping shrimp to better prevent diseases, absorb food thoroughly, and stabilize the pond environment. In particular, saving treatment costs for farmers.

Currently, many shrimp farmers have successfully applied the herbal shrimp farming model. So in your opinion, raising with herbs and probiotics will become the key to sustainable aquaculture in the future?

Farming with herbs and probiotics is becoming the "golden key" to develop a sustainable seafood industry. Currently, most of Truong Sinh's customers who have used herbal products give positive feedback and are committed to long-term use. Most of the products are highly appreciated such as: TS 999 for prevention of white feces disease, SDK for bactericidal from herbs, TS 1001, TS 1002, TR555 for treatment of liver diseases...

It is easy to see that herbal products can solve the backlog of antibiotics, prevent diseases for shrimp but are not resistant to them, are safe and promote outstanding growth and development. The use of herbal products will build shrimp reputation in the international market, increasing profits for businesses and farmers.

As a successful large corporation in the field of producing aquatic drugs from herbs, how has Truong Sinh Group overcome difficulties during the epidemic and achieved success in the past year 2021, sir?

In the past year, despite facing certain difficulties, we see it as an opportunity to change the way and thinking of working. Accordingly, we changed our business strategy and continued to invest in machinery and equipment to meet GMP standards to improve the quality of our products.

Despite the epidemic, the demand for Truong Sinh's herbal medicine in aquaculture is still high, so investment in product quality is indispensable. With that effort, Truong Sinh Group overcame difficulties, stabilized production and business with a 20% increase in revenue compared to the previous year.

In 2022, we will continue to invest in research to come up with new products for the seafood industry, and at the same time continue to invest in expanding shrimp farming models with herbs. Our ultimate goal is not simply to sell goods, but to provide the seafood market with environmentally friendly products, contributing to honoring the brand name for sustainable development of Vietnamese shrimp. than.

Thank you Sir!

Source: Tuan Anh - nongnghiepviet.vn