Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Cultivation grew 2.41 percent, aquaculture 1.8 percent, and animalhusbandry 0.95 percent.
Pig and milch cow heads, however, fell year-on-year.
There are now 105,386 heads of cattle in the city, down 3 percentyear-on-year. Of these, 51,329 are beef cattle, up 0.3 percent, and the remaindermilch cows, down 6 percent. Pigs totalled 147,168 heads, down 9.1 percent.
The total output of aquatic products was estimated at 13,756 tonnes inthe first three months, up 1.8 percent year-on-year. Of this, 7,902 tonnes werefarmed, up 1.5 percent, while those caught totalled 5,854 tonnes, up 2.1percent.
Regarding cultivation, the vegetable area was 5,508 ha, up 13.6 percent andwith an output of 150,453 tonnes, up 9.6 percent.
Local companies exported some 76.9 tonnes of seeds, including 66.9tonnes of vegetable seedss and 10 tonnes of rice seeds, down 31.2percent year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, 137 cultivation establishments in thecity with a total area of 309 ha and output of 35,905 tonnes per year receivedVietGAP certificates, raising the total number to 600 with 966 ha and annualoutput of 153,367 tonnes.
Director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Dinh Minh Hiep said that, this year, the city’s agriculture sectorstrives to achieve gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth of 2-2.5 percentand will grant VietGAP certificates to 76 percent of vegetable growing area.
In the near future, the city will step up its agriculture restructuringand instruct farmers, cooperatives, and businesses on how to develop key farmproduce such as vegetables, flowers, milch cows, pigs, brackish-water shrimp, andornamental fish, and adopt bio-technology to produce quality seedlings andbreeding animals, towards turning the city into a hub of seedlings and breedinganimals in the region./.
VNA
