Vinhthinh Biostadt Hatchery, which is located in a renowned place for concentrated shrimp stock production – An Hải, Ninh Thuận, has participated in the fishery for 20 years. The company has achieved and maintained the international certificate BAP and Global GAP for 5 years in a row.
Vĩnh Thịnh Company’s Office
With an aim to produce high-quality shrimp stock, Vĩnh Thịnh Company has invested to enhance the stock production capacity, meeting several strict standards regarding the production of disease-free seafood. Particularly, the stock manufacture area was systematically provided with hundreds of farming ponds, whose capacity could reach 3 billion whiteleg shrimp breeds each year.
Shrimp quality control in a laboratory
In the process of producing shrimp stock, Vĩnh Thịnh company has formed a strict program system and a hardware system to optimize the guarantee of biological safety for the breeding farms. These systems have been shaped through centralizing the significance of the national program implemented on certificates of facilities that ensure disease safety by the Ministry of Agriculture, which conform the OIE’s advice with respect to establishing Vietnamese high-quality and disease-free shrimp stock in order to make shrimp farming sustainable. In the past 6 months, the company with its huge efforts has been awarded a certificate regarding disease-free and safe facilities for animals by the provincial Sub-Department of Livestock production and Veterinary. This was a pride for the company to become one of the first 8 units to receive this significant certificate.
Certificate of disease-free facility
Ms. Phan Thị Mỹ Hương – the deputy CEO of Vinhthinh Biostadt Hatchery, said that to achieve this certificate, the company has spent 24 months constantly and frequently taking samples for testing, and making sure that all samples were negative to 3 kinds of disease, namely White Spot Disease (WSD), Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) and Hypothermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHHNV). The certificate is a result of the company’s endeavoring period. Many companies certainly do not have the ability to facilitate infrastructure, production planning and professional management to employ such highly-biosecured farms as Vĩnh Thịnh company does in the market.
Having been experienced in shrimp breeding production for many years, Vĩnh Thịnh Company fully understands the central role of the brood shrimp toward shrimp breeds in the near future. Therefore, the company has chosen to import the SIS Superior brood shrimp from Hawaii, which is the biggest whiteleg shrimp supplier in the U.S. and even in the world. This is a new-gen shrimp stock that brings along several merits, such as high resistance, fast-growing process, uniform size, considerable adaptation to the climate and environment, shorter farming time and higher profits for farmers. Besides, the company has utilized the cutting-edge shrimp counting machine that makes the packaging process nearly accurate in the number of farmed shrimp when delivering to customers. Vĩnh Thịnh Company has provided the market with high-quality shrimp thanks to their implications of top-notch technologies in production. And this is one of the reasons as to why the company acquires public credibility and becomes the top choice of many shrimp-farming households around the country, especially in the central shrimp-farming area – the South West. The company has constantly sold various shrimp breeds for several localities in order to keep up with the farming season, receiving high credibility from the farmers, even though the COVID-19 took its toll on the company.
The model of farming shrimp on a small but dense scale and 3-phase farming of Vĩnh Thịnh Biostadt, which are beneficial to farmers thanks to all input products, the services of care, support and traceability.
According to the provincial Sub-Department of Livestock production and Veterinary, Ninh Thuan province now has 450 shrimp-breeding manufacturing facilities with more than 40 billion shrimps/year. From 2017 until now, there have been 17 facilities engaging in supervision registration to achieve the certificate of ensuring disease safety for animals, however, only 8 facilities met the standards of the certificate. All the certified facilities are fully equipped with modern infrastructure and capable of manufacturing 1 billion shrimp breeds/year. Moreover, these amenities also meet the needs for biosecurity and personnel ability, as well as high-quality disease-free breeds.
High-quality and disease-free breeds leading to productive commercial shrimp
Mr. Huỳnh Minh Khánh, Deputy Head of the Sub-Department of Livestock Production and Veterinary noted that as the Ministry of Agriculture stated in the Circular No. 26/2016/TT-BNNPTNT regarding disease-testing regulations for animals and seafood products, the certified facilities do not have to take samples for testing in order to reduce samples, testing time, costs and workforce. In addition, the program on building disease-free facilities for animals also contributes to improving Ninh Thuận shrimp’s reputation and image in the market. Thus, in the near future, the province will motivate, guide, encourage and support investment firms to form systematic progress so as to scale up the number of certified facilities, aim to sustainable production and improve product brand, accordingly, to be a well-deserved center of high-quality shrimp stock production of the country.
