Considering local policies, current development in pig production, crops and fish ponds, agricultural department of Thai Binh province has agreed to support E3P activities in four district: Vu Thu, Dong Hung, Quynh Phu and Thai Thuy. In these diostrict, numerous issues have been identified that already threaten environment and water; from reports about highly-concentrated areas in pig farms, about lack of treatment technologies, about importation of compost from Hanoi in maize cultivation areas, various situations within each district are expected to feed the E3P diagnostic.