Agricultural sector targets attracting 25 billion USD in FDI by 2030

The agricultural sector targets attracting 25 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) by 2030, along with 5 billion USD in loans and 1 billion USD in grants.
Agricultural sector targets attracting 25 billion USD in FDI by 2030 ảnh 1Vietnam's agriculture sector targets attracting 25 billion USD by 2030. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The agricultural sector targets attracting 25 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) by 2030, along with 5 billion USD in loans and 1 billion USD in grants.

By the end of 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development approved projects with a total investment of 840 million USD.

The ministry is cooperating with enterprises to propose14 projects with a total capital of 3.2 billion USD.

In 2023, the sector will focus on greenand circular agriculture.

To improve international cooperation and integration in the coming time, the ministry asked agencies to continue toincrease the quality of institutional work, especially thoserelating to foreign trade to ensure Vietnamese laws and regulations' compliance with its international commitments and practices.

Under the country’s international agricultural cooperation strategy, the sector aims to raise the export turnover of agro-forestry-fisheries products to 70 billion USD by 2030.

Agricultural sector targets attracting 25 billion USD in FDI by 2030 ảnh 2Free trade agreements with tax incentives help Vietnamese agriculture exporters have a competitive advantage in prices in the global market.(Photo: nongnghiep.vn)

Vietnam has joined 15 free trade agreements (FTAs) and continues to negotiate new deals with Israel and Canada.

It has signed FTAs with all of its key agro-forestry-fishery export markets, which helps Vietnamese exporters have a competitive advantage in prices in the global market thanks to tax incentives.

In addition, the ministry will continuestrengthening activities in market forecasting, policies, and solutions inrelations with international partners.

It will also further coordinate with agriculturalassociations and industries to nominate candidates to join trade associations inVietnam’s major import markets./.

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