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SOC TRANG, Vietnam: With a flashy gold watch and a chunky matching ring, Tang Van Cuol looks a far cry from the average Vietnamese farmer as he slings back a shot of rice wine and boasts about his projected earnings.
After years scratching a living growing rice and onions or farming ducks, the 54-year-old says his life was transformed in 2000 – by shrimp.
The 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. Tiếp tục đọc “Rice to riches: Vietnam’s shrimp farmers fish for fortunes”

Nhân công chế biến cá tra xuất khẩu tại một doanh nghiệp. Ảnh: Trung Chánh




Nhiều hộ dân ở Vĩnh Long đang phát triển cây thanh long trong khi chưa có đầu ra ổn định Ảnh: NGỌC TRINH 

Nông dân tham quan cánh đồng mẫu lớn – Ảnh: LHV.
