Hanoi works to improve farmers’ income

Hanoi is paying great attention to developing large-scale centralised cultivation areas in line with environment protection in a bid to improve the income for local farmers.
Hanoi is paying great attention to developing large-scale centralised cultivation areas in line with environment protection in a bid to improve the income for local farmers.

The city has decided to raise the agro-forestry-fishery production value to 230 million VND (10,900 USD) per hectare from the current 212 million VND, and targeted an annual 1.5-2 percent growth.

Agriculturalists plan to reform services and enhance the efficiency of land, labour, technique and material use to realise the goal.

Some 1,000 ha of tea will be replanted from now to 2016, aiming to produce 24,000 tonnes of product in the next two years, with production value worth 90 million VND per hectare per year.

Flower cultivation is also seen as a strength of the city. Last year, the area for high-quality flowers such as roses and forget-me-not continued to surge, fetching high economic value and making up 13 percent of the total local flower cultivation land.

Hanoi will increase its livestock to 24,000 buffalos, 150,000 cows (including 13,500 milch cows), 1.4 million pigs, and 20 million fowls.

Local authorities are striving to ensure 93.48 percent of households gain access to fresh water, and 62 communes fulfill all new-style rural building criteria.-VNA

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