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ABSTRACT

Received 22 Oct 2016
Revised 05 Feb 2017

Accepted 30 Mar 2018

This study was conducted from May to August, 2015 in Cu Lao Dung district, Soc Trang province. One hundred and fifty households were randomly interviewed directly through prepared questionnaires on technical and financial aspects of farming system and five capitals of livelihood strategy. The results showed that white leg shrimp (WLS) is the more popular cultured species compared to tiger shrimp (TS) accounting for 80% of the total interviewed farmers (120 households). In particularly, pond areas of WLS and TS were 0.33 and 0.35 ha, respectively. Shrimp stocking density of WLS and TS were 83 ind./m² and 31 ind./m². The yield of WLS and TS farms were 8.8 tons/ha/crop and 4.7 tons/ha/crop respectively. Total production cost of WLS and TS were 690 VND million/ha/crop and 466 VND million/ha/crop. The profits of WLS and TS farms were non significant difference (173 and 251 VND million/ha/crop, respectively). In general, farmers were dealing with many obstacles such as shrimp diseases, environmental degradation, high feed cost, especially the fluctuated selling price of shrimp that caused 36.6% of WLS and 27.5% of TS households losses. In terms of livelihood strategy, natural capital has the highest score (4.03), social capital (3.04), while the other three capitals (human, physical and financial capital) were 2.75, 2.93 and 2.25, respectively. Therefore, a planning for shrimp culture area in Cu Lao Dung should be carried out to optimize favorable natural and social conditions.

Keywords

Financial, livelihood, technical, tiger shrimp, white leg shrimp

Cited as: Minh, T.H., 2018. Assessment on the technical and financial characteristics and livelihood strategy of while leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) farms in Cu Lao Dung district, Soc Trang province. Can Tho University Journal of Science. 54(2): 27-34.