At the sector’s patriotic emulation conference in Hanoi on August
24, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh
Tan said that the sector should focus on building a modern and
sustainable agricultural sector which is capable of producing high
quality and competitive commodities in large volumes, while ensuring the
nation’s food security.
The sector plans to achieve
an annual production growth of 4-4.5 percent and an increase in export
turnover of 6.5-7 percent to 21 billion USD per year. It will attempt to
increase forest coverage to 43 percent, realise a seed crop output of
47 million tonnes, including 40 million tonnes of rice, and an annual
seafood output of 4 million tonnes. Farmers per-capita incomes are also
expected to reach 20 million VND per annum.
According to the deputy minister, agriculture is the economic sector to
suffer the most from climate change, disasters, epidemics and
international competition, while the amount of useable land and number
of workers are diminishing.
To reach this target,
Tan said that the sector has put forward a number of solutions on
science and technology, marketing, human resources development and
investments in technical infrastructure and production.
During the 2006-2010 period, the agriculture and rural development
sector made many important achievements in rice, other industrial crops,
animal husbandry and seafood production, earning between 50-200 million
VND, even billions of VND, per hectare per year. Its added value rose
by 3.4 percent per year compared with the Government’s target of 3-3.2
percent.
Also in the reviewed period, Vietnam
exported almost 25 million tonnes of rice worth more than 10 billion VND
and ensured its food security. The nation exported more than 20.6
billion USD of seafood and its forest coverage has risen from 38 percent
in 2006 to 39.8 percent in 2009.
From 2006-2009,
the sector approved 160 ODA projects totalling almost 1.42 billion USD,
of which non-refundable aid made up 45 percent.
A
number of Vietnam ’s agro-forestry and fisheries trademarks are now
firmly established in domestic and foreign markets such as Mekong Delta
tra fish, Vinh Long province’s Nanh Chon rice, Dien Bien rice, Nam Roi
grapefruit and Buon Ma Thuot coffee./.
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