Bac Lieu salt farmers busy in 2025 salt season

Bac Lieu salt farmers are preparing for the Salt Festival in March 2025, with positive weather conditions and promising productivity from the last crop. They are also renovating salt fields and preparing for the new crop, which is expected to start in mid-February due to unusual weather conditions. The Doanh Dien Aquaculture Service Cooperative is producing traditional salt and Artemia, with plans to convert to white salt spread on tarpaulins to reduce production costs and increase income. The Bac Lieu Salt Joint Stock Company is requesting policy support to build a model of salt spread on tarpaulins and has harvested about 2,000 tons of white salt in 2024. The Salt Festival is expected to promote the salt-making profession and increase the value of salt grains.

Promising Salt Crop With positive signals from the productivity of last year's crop and the weather conditions starting to be favorable for production, Bac Lieu salt farmers have more motivation to continue maintaining the traditional salt making profession, especially in preparation for the Salt Festival in early March 2025. According to the reporter's records, this year's weather was initially unfavorable because of little sunshine and unseasonal rains, so salt workers in the district were still hesitant. But for about 2 weeks now, with a lot of sunshine and stable weather, salt farmers have stepped up the renovation of salt fields by bringing in water for drying. Mr. Tran Van Thua, Chairman of Doanh Dien Aquaculture Service Cooperative (Dien Hai commune, Dong Hai district) shared: This year's salt crop is 1 month later than previous years due to the influence of the weather. Therefore, at this time, households in the area are busy renovating ditches, watchtowers, and canals to ...