Faced with climate challenges, Vietnamese rice farmers switch to shrimp

A shrimp farmer feeds shrimps in a pool in Soc Trang province, Vietnam, April 27, 2021. - Reuters

TRAN DE (Vietnam) May 6 (Reuters): For years, Ta Thi Thanh Thuy toiled on a sliver of land sandwiched between the Mekong River and the South China Sea, a region widely known as Vietnam's rice bowl, to grow the prized grain.

But Thuy, along with many of her neighbours, has over the past decade completed a production swap - to shrimp - a previously unlikely shift that was spurred by the effects of climate change.