Hanoi (VNA) – The crop cultivation sector hasset the goal of earning nearly 21 billion USD from farm produce export thisyear.
It was revealed at a conference recently held in Hanoi toreview 2018 activities and launch 2019 tasks by the Department of CropProduction under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The sector also targeted increasing production value bynearly 1.78 percent and improving farmers’ income.
Last year, the cultivation production value was estimated at482 trillion VND (20.9 billion USD), up around 2.52 percent while farm producevalue stood at 19.5 billion USD, up 3 percent year-on-year.
Specifically, rice export brought home 3.8 billion USD,marking an 8.5 percent increase in value. Fruit and vegetable shipments went up8.5 percent in value to 3.8 billion USD.-VNA
Farmers hail land tax waiver
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