HCM City pushes urban agriculture - cows, pigs, shrimps, crocodiles, vegatables

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HCM City pushes urban agriculture

HCM CITY — The HCM City People's Committee has approved a plan to develop urban agriculture to 2020 with a vision to 2025, with the target of achieving average revenue of VND300 million (US$15,800) from one ha of farmland by 2020.

Under the plan, the farmland acreage will remain at 82,600ha by 2020. Of that figure, 41.7 per cent would be for crop cultivation, 44.1 per cent for forest cultivation, and the remaining for aquatic cultivation, salt production and other farming purposes.
By 2025, the farmland will be reduced by 2,100ha to 80,500ha.

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Agriculture/199834/HCM-City-pushes-urban-agriculture-.html

 

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Vegetable "parasitic" on the black channel


Many people have "initiative" to take advantage of inner city canals to grow vegetable profit, despite the serious pollution of black water can be dangerous to the health of consumers.

From vegetable made in "Three Cows channel" ...
Water source water spinach grown in Binh Chieu Ward, Thu Duc Ba Bo canal from being polluted.

On 9.7, from the tips of some small business selling vegetables in local markets in Thu Duc district, opposite of where we once produced vegetable and large-scale up to several hectares, lying on both sides Ba Bo canal rot (P. Binh Chieu Ward, Thu Duc) - where water pollution is considered the most terrible of the City.

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