Aquaculture workers in the Mekong Delta are distressed
According to Thanhnien.online, most of shrimp processing companies in the Mekong Delta are now only working perfunctorily because of shortage raw materials and it leads to thousand of workers lose their jobs. CAMIMEX, the processing company of organic shrimp only run for 30% of capacity and there are 207 workers have resiged. The company plan to reduce hundreds of workers this year. The Phu Cuong company ( Ca Mau province) has 21 seafood processing and exporting companies in the Mekong Delta with more than 10,000 workers. The company have to compensate 60 billions VND to pay workers for the time waiting raw material production increase.
More than 2,600 ha shrimp die in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu
According to Agriculture and Rural Development Department of Ca Mau and Bac Lieu (8 March 2009), unusual and heated sunlight for long time makes more than 2,600 ha shrimp die, in which Bac Lieu is accounted for 1,395 ha and Ca Mau 1,228 ha.
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ReplyDeleteNice posts! Seems like there is a lot of adaptation to be seen in Organic shrimp as a result of the global downturn then. Shrimp is a luxury product and will be impacted as such. This could be an interesting item for our upcoming paper! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat proportion of the total area in Bacn Lieu and Ca Mau has been affected by this unusual heat?
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