Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan envisions the agricultural sector moving beyond food production to exploit new value domains, highlighting it must develop multi-purpose and multi-layered value to make breakthroughs in the new era – that of the nation's rise.
The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's largest producer and exporter of food, aquatic products and fruits, is stepping up agricultural economy linked with tourism development. Regional localities are leveraging their agricultural strengths to create distinctive experience tourism products, adding vibrancy to the region's tourism palette.
The northern province of Hung Yen has for more than two years implemented a development plan on enhancing the economic efficiency of its riverside areas by 2025, with a vision to 2030, resulting in significant improvement in the local socio-economic landscape.
The agriculture sector has encountered a host of challenges and obstacles over recent times, but the implementation of free trade agreements has opened up further opportunities for investment and expanded export markets for Vietnamese agricultural products.
In recent years, many farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have changed their way of thinking and doing, to improve their family's income and create high-added value in the direction of shifting from agricultural production to the agricultural economy.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said that it is necessary for the nation to shift from agricultural production to an agricultural economy.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a decision approving a master plan for the Mekong Delta region in the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.
The farming sector will change its mindset from agricultural production to agricultural economy, which demands the formation of a professional workforce.
After more than 13 years of implementing Resolution 26-NQ/TW on agriculture, farmers and rural areas, the agricultural growth rate has reached 2.94% per year and the quality of growth has also increasingly been improving.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan has pledged to tackle obstacles to two projects on food safety and hygiene, and sustainable fishery development, saying that they are urgent to Vietnam’s agriculture.
A workshop on digital transformation and supply chain in agriculture took place in Cao Lanh city in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on December 21 on the sidelines of the 2020 Mekong Connect Forum.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the agriculture sector to switch from the mindset of agricultural production to an agricultural economy and international integration in order to create a revolution in the development of agriculture, farmers and rural areas.
Farming land transfer and renting activities, motivated by the transition of the agricultural economy towards larger scale modernisation, have become busy recently, initiating the development of the agricultural land use market in Vietnam. However, the Land Law 2013 has yet to catch up with the trend, leading to many difficulties in the market.
A conference on investment and start-up promotion will take place in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on June 19, aiming to call for investments to the locality.
An exhibition entitled “Doi moi (Reform) – Journey of dreams” and “Kim Ngoc – Pioneer in the reform journey” was kicked off in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on October 5.
