In the context of climate change, epidemics and increasing input costs, Vietnamese seafood cannot only rely on natural advantages. Advanced farming technologies such as intensive farming, superintensive farming, circular farming, using biological products, and environmental control have been applied to reduce costs, increase productivity and limit environmental impacts.
According to the Department of Science and Technology (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), the field of aquaculture and fisheries surveillance has implemented 113 science and technology tasks. Research spans from biotechnology, breeding, cultivation, exploitation to post-harvest preservation and processing. Many results have been applied to production, in which breeding contributes to proactively more than 80% of key aquatic breeds, mostly disease-free breeds.
Scientific and technological research results have been widely applied to production practice, with the scale of deployment accounting for about 90% of the area and output of aquaculture. This has contributed to maintaining the stable growth rate of the industry at 4-5%/year, while increasing people's income, promoting local economic development and ensuring social security. Effective farming models, technology solutions in preservation, processing and exploitation have created positive changes, towards developing the aquaculture industry in a modern, sustainable and climate change-adapted direction" - representative of the Department of Science and Technology said.
IoT, big data, blockchain, biotechnology are mainly applied in the fields of breeding, aquaculture, harvesting. IoT is applied in measuring, monitoring, and monitoring water quality automatically 24/24 hours. In the processing stage, digital technology is gradually being applied in enterprises. Large-scale seafood processing plants are gradually applying automation technology, robots, combining IoT, big data to connect equipment, production lines, and machinery in factories with digital production chain management and supervision systems, ensuring speed, transparency, and accuracy.
Mr. Trinh Trung Phi - Deputy General Director of Technology and Commercial Shrimp, Viet Uc Group - said: "If previously successful farming was mainly about how to make shrimp live and grow, now it is also necessary to farm shrimp to be healthy, uniform, reasonably cost, traceable to the source and meet increasingly high quality, food safety and sustainability standards. This means that shrimp farming today is no longer just a problem of farming pond techniques alone, but a problem of risk management across the entire chain, from parent shrimp, seeds, biosafety, environmental management to early detection and timely response to abnormal signs".
However, the application has only stopped at some typical models and businesses with financial potential. Small and medium-sized enterprises and farming households mostly apply digital technology very little.
With a sustainable development orientation to 2030, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment identifies science and technology as a key and breakthrough task of the Fisheries sector. In which, applying new technical solutions, transferring new technologies in breeding and nurturing production to improve the quality of breeds that have proactively produced artificial breeds. Strictly controlling the quantity and quality of breeds from imported sources and natural exploitation. Proactively researching, receiving and applying technology to breeding and nurturing aquatic species that have not proactively produced artificial breeds. Applying new and advanced techniques to production to save water and fuel...
