Planning on soil utilization for the Coastal Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam in period 2005-2010

he Coastal Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam includes 8 provinces: Long An, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau and Kien Giang, it is the multiform ecology with many production industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, Salt… This is really a region with advantages and private features about geography, natural conditions and resources, water and soil environment, manpower and multiform economic potentiality of Mekong Delta in particular and Vietnam in general. However, these potentialities have not been exploited equivalently to its statue, because in there it still has existed unstableness and implicit hazards caused by natural calamity. To direct suitable exploitation and multiform development of economic components with a position of agriculture-forestry and aquaculture strength, adapting to natural ecological environment in this region, we need establish planning on soil utilization basing on researched results of salinity intrusion and water environment, people’s material and moral welfare in the whole area to determine the suitable, long-term and stable plan, and to help an important part in achievement of economic-social development following rural industrialization and modernization direction, raising people’s living standards in the Coastal Mekong River Delta to the new level