Vietnam's southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to earn $2 billion (€1.8 billion) from shrimp exports by 2020, nearly doubling last year’s export revenue, reports Eleven Myanmar.

Under a project to boost the shrimp industry, the province aimed at expanding shrimp raising farms to 280,000 hectares by 2020, with total output of 280,000 metric tons.

By 2030, the shrimp raising areas would no longer be expanded, but productivity would be improved from one metric ton per hectare per year to 1.48