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Rice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimp

dc.coverage.spatialMekong Deltaen
dc.coverage.spatialVietnamen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-27T05:48:17Z
dc.date.available2017-11-27T05:48:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-10
dc.identifier.citationRice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimp. (2017, August 10). The Manila Times, p. B4.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/38
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe Manila Times Publishing Corporationen
dc.titleRice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimpen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journaltitleThe Manila Timesen
dc.citation.firstpageB4en
local.subject.classificationMT20170810_B4en
local.descriptionThe Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. The shrimp bonanza began in the 1990s when rising sea-levels seeped saltwater into the Mekong Delta. When saltwater started creeping into his rice fields — he saw an opportunity and started harvesting shrimp.en
local.subject.personalnameGorman, Tim
local.subject.corporatenameInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)en
dc.contributor.corporateauthorAgence France-Presse (AFP)en
dc.subject.agrovocshrimp cultureen
dc.subject.agrovocRice field aquacultureen
dc.subject.agrovocsocioeconomic aspectsen
dc.subject.agrovoccommercial speciesen
dc.subject.agrovocIntensive cultureen
dc.subject.agrovocenvironmental effectsen
dc.subject.agrovocCulture effectsen
dc.subject.agrovocClimatic changesen
dc.subject.agrovocmangrove conservationen
dc.subject.agrovocaquaculture economicsen
dc.subject.agrovocfish diseasesen
dc.subject.agrovocPollution effectsen
dc.subject.agrovoctradeen
dc.subject.agrovoclivelihoodsen
dc.subject.agrovocaquaculturistsen


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