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• Diffusing clusters with micro holes and blowing air placed on the bottom of the pond are ideal
media for the rapid growth of vibrio bacteria.
• Causing serious noise pollution for people working and living near shrimp farming.

Moreover, this model has a stronger advantage in applying the advances of the 4.0 revolution to
high-tech agricultural farming.

3.4.3. Opportunities and challenges
The model of super-intensive shrimp farming TOMGOXY will create many opportunities for the
development of Vietnam’s aquaculture industry in general and the Mekong Delta shrimp industry
in particular.
• First of all, it will solve the difficult limitations that the shrimp industry is facing, such as water
pollution and diseases.
• Create conditions to increase the stocking density on limited land and water resources: it is
possible to raise more than 500 fish/m compared to the current maximum of 200-300 fish/m .
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• Improve productivity to create large output for processing and export so that Vietnam can be the
world hub of shrimp production.

• Solve water pollution as well as shrimp disease pollution in shrimp farming areas, reducing risks
for farmers.
However, this model will also face some challenges such as:

• Investment costs are too high compared to shrimp farmers’ ability to pay. The estimated investment
cost for a shrimp pond (500 m ) is about 1.2 billion VND, which is not small even though the
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super-intensive shrimp farmers are often economically well-off households in the area.
• The level of understanding and application of current high-tech equipment in rural areas is not
much while shrimp farmers are often elderly household heads (over 50 years old) with a limited
level of education, often cultivated by experience.

3.4.4. Conclusions

The TOMGOXY super-intensive shrimp farming model is a big step forward in building an advanced
aquaculture process by overcoming the urgent limitations of traditional farming processes through
progressive applications of aquatic farming techniques which are applied the achievements in physics,
chemistry, biology and especially the achievements of the industrial revolution 4.0. This is a model
of high-tech shrimp farming in the coming years in the Mekong Delta. In order for this model to be
quickly applied in production, it is necessary to have policies to support shrimp farmers, such as credit
loans with preferential interest rates for activities applying science and technology or promoting the
linkage process between technology enterprises and shrimp farmers in improving farming processes
and sharing profits, etc.

3.5. Model of Waste Treatment in Pig Production in Thua Thien Hue Province
3.5.1. General inforation

In recent years, the pig industry has accounted for a very large proportion and developed at a dizzying
rate due to increased consumer demand, which has made the problem of waste treatment not guaranteed
to be safe and hygienic, greatly affecting the quality of life and to the environment, such as pollution of
water sources, soil environment, air and agricultural products.

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