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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.subjectshrimp cultureen
dc.subjectRice field aquacultureen
dc.subjectsocioeconomic aspectsen
dc.subjectcommercial speciesen
dc.subjectIntensive cultureen
dc.subjectenvironmental effectsen
dc.subjectCulture effectsen
dc.subjectClimatic changesen
dc.subjectmangrove conservationen
dc.subjectaquaculture economicsen
dc.subjectfish diseasesen
dc.subjectPollution effectsen
dc.subjecttradeen
dc.subjectlivelihoodsen
dc.subjectaquaculturistsen
dc.titleRice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimpen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journaltitleThe Manila Timesen
dc.citation.firstpageB4en
local.seafdecaqd.controlnumberMT20170810_B4en
local.seafdecaqd.extractThe 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


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