Keyword: "rural areas"

The number of advanced and exemplary new-style rural communes in Can Tho City has exceeded the city’s targets set for the 2021-25 period.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 27 urged the agriculture sector to accelerate and make breakthroughs for a more prosperous and happier life for farmers, more modern rural areas, and more advanced agriculture.

Vietnam’s urbanization rate is projected to exceed 50% by 2030, according to the urban and rural system planning for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on October 14 attended a ceremony to honour outstanding Vietnamese farmers and cooperatives nationwide in 2024 on the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the Vietnam Farmers' Union (October 14, 1930 - 2024).

A fair showcasing outstanding industrial products of northern rural areas opened in Hanoi on May 16, featuring 270 pavilions from 40 provinces and cities.

As many as 173 products were recognised as national outstanding rural industrial goods in 2023 at a ceremony held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Hanoi on December 15.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has signed a decision approving a development strategy of rural occupations until 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Hanoi is a leading locality in Vietnam in implementing a programme on developing new-style rural areas. The programme has given a facelift to the capital’s outskirts, especially mountainous communes, after they were merged into the city under expansions to its administrative boundaries in 2008.

Financial technology (fintech) start-ups should have sound ideas to tap the potential but risky rural area market, said experts.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan on March 15 said that agritourism should be turned into an integrated economic sector with agricultural products and typical characteristics of rural areas being used as resources to serve the tourism industry.

Tea and dried fruit are two key Vietnamese products being introduced at the International Agricultural Show (SIA), the biggest annual event in agriculture, husbandry, fishery, and rural areas in France and held from February 25 to March 5 in Paris.

The Hanoi People's Committee has issued a plan on developing from 5-9 centres for One Commune One Product (OCOP) design, introduction, promotion and sale in association with tourism across the city in 2023.

​All 45 communes in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province have been recognised as meeting new rural area standards, of which 19 have achieved new advanced rural area standards, helping the province complete the new rural area program.

Green production models have taken shape in rural areas in recent years to meet the growing demand for public health.

Outstanding products of the “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme from northern mountainous provinces are being showcased at an event opened in Son Tay town of Hanoi on August 31.

The 13th-tenure Party Central Committee entered the third day of its fifth session on May 6.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to mobilise all resources to successfully implement its strategy on agriculture, farmers and rural areas, towards eco-agriculture, modern rural areas and smart farmers.

The national target programme on new-style rural area building for 2021 - 2025 has recently been approved by the Prime Minister, aiming to have at least 80 percent of the communes nationwide earning the status by 2025.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a strategy for sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas for 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050.

A national strategy on clean water supply and sanitation in rural areas by 2030 with a vision to 2045 was announced on December 22 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam.