Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Director of theprovincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Duong Thanh Tungsaid Bac Giang plans to develop agriculture towards improving its efficiency andsustainability and ensuring national food security.
The sector’s annualgrowth is expected to average 1.5-1.6 percent in the 2021-2030 period. Horticulturalproducts meeting safety standards are to account for 70 percent of total output,while those in husbandry and fisheries are to reach 80 percent and 70 percent,respectively.
Tung said BacGiang has developed a plan for the enforcement of last year’s decision from thePolitburo on ensuring national food security by 2030 in the province.
The provincealso aims to reduce its total farming land from 286,660 ha in 2025 to 271,690 hain 2030, with agricultural production areas to come down from 124,450 ha in2025 to 121,870 ha in 2030. Rice farming areas will also decline from 61,190 hain 2025 to 51,207 ha in 2030.
Meanwhile, itwill raise its livestock and poultry population from 26.46 million heads in2025 to 35.64 million in 2030. The output of meat will then increase fromnearly 260,000 tonnes in 2025 to 302,000 tonnes in 2030, while the number ofeggs will grow from 250 million in 2025 to 300 million in 2030.
The provincetargets having 12,500 ha of aquaculture area by 2025, with output of 55,000tonnes, rising to 12,700 ha and 60,000 tonnes, respectively, by 2030.
The rate ofagricultural products cultivated under Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) andsafety standards will rise to 60 percent in horticulture, 46.7 percent in husbandry,and 55 percent in fisheries by 2025. The number of processors and producerscertified to meet food safety rules will reach 96 percent.
In the time tocome, Bac Giang plans to develop the large-scale production of key agriculturalproducts and local specialties, to bring into full play the potential of each localregion.
It targets havingabout 70 “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) products, three of which - Luc Nganlychee, Lang Van alcohol, and Chu noodles - are to be rated five stars by 2025. By2030, the province eyes developing more than 400 OCOP products rated three stars ormore.
To this end, it willtake measures to not only boost production but also develop infrastructure andtechnology; facilitate human resources development; formulate supportingpolicies for farmers, enterprises, and localities; ramp up exports of local keyproducts, such as lychee, processed vegetables, pork, and hill chicken; andestablish an information system for food security.
Agriculture,forestry, and fisheries production in Bac Giang was valued at more than 36.5trillion VND (over 1.58 billion USD) last year, up 6.7 percent against 2019.The province has so far developed 163 large-scale model fields of rice andvegetables, covering a combined area of nearly 5,150 ha.
Gross output perhectare of cultivated land reached 120 million VND in 2020, an increase of 14.3percent compared to the previous year. Grain output exceeded 630,000 tonnes.
The pig populationrebounded to 1 million heads. In addition to key livestock animals and poultry,such as pig and chickens, local farms have shifted to the farming of whitehorses, goats, rabbits, and honey bees. Meat output totaled nearly 220,000tonnes live weight./.
VNA
