Cambodian daily hails economic development in Vietnamese province

10:59 08/01/2007

The Light of Cambodia, one of the largest dailies in Cambodia, has recently carried an article, highlighting Viet Nam’s southern province of An Giang for “Tra” and “Basa” farming.

The paper hailed the socio-economic development in An Giang with two key products; fish and rice; saying the export of Tra and Basa catfish contributed most to the province’s export turnover of about 400 million USD in 2006.

The paper elaborated that the province was farming fish in about 3,200 cages, exporting 190,000 tonnes of fish a year in addition to 2.9 tonnes of food in paddy equivalent. Also in 2006, An Giang’s GDP growth rate reached 9 percent.

The province has a population of 2.2 million living in 11 districts, including four districts bordering Cambodia, and has two international border-gates with Cambodia.