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Fruit exports may hit more than 2 billion USD this year, up 11 percent compared to 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development master plan to develop lobster cultivation to 2020 with a vision to 2030 aims to make lobster farming a key economic sector in the central region.

The recent mass fish death in the central coastal region is likely due to the contamination of biological or chemical toxins at high levels, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will consider allocating the World Bank’s loans for Binh Phuoc to help the locality upgrade its lakes and dams to deal with the ongoing drought.

Vietnam gained a year on year increase of 41 percent from export value of vegetable and fruit to 526 million USD in the first three months of this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a national programme to prevent foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among animals between 2016 and 2020.

Vietnam's cashew exports in January jumped 15.6 percent year-on-year to 183 million USD, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to complete their domestic procedures at an early date, in order to reach an agreement on setting up a hotline for their fishing activities.

The cumulative export turnover of the agro-forestry-fisheries products reached 140.6 billion USD from 2011 to 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 9 percent.

Forestry production growth in 2015 recorded a relatively high increase of 7.9 percent over the previous year, announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The EVN and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have agreed to regulate water held in hydropower reservoirs power supplies and water for agricultural production activities.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is drafting policies to promote the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the agricultural sector.

Vietnam’s rice exports are likely to reach 6.8 million tonnes in 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Centre for Informatics and Statistics.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on November 12 decided to suspend the import of wheat from Ukraine.

The Prime Minister has directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to allocate over 2,000 tonnes of various seeds from the national reserve to 11 disaster-hit provinces.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced it plans to work with relevant agencies to examine and ensure food safety, which it identified as an urgent task.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reviewed the outcomes of a public-private project on agriculture risk management through insurance on October 8.

The aquatic sector aims to catch over 1.26 million tonnes of fish in the season from this October to March next year, including 1.15 million tonnes of sea fish and 106,000 tonnes of freshwater fish.

A workshop was held in New Delhi, India on September 29 to promote Vietnamese agricultural products in the country.

Progress should be made in the irrigation sector towards serving important programmes, including those to restructure agriculture and build new-style rural areas, said MARD Minister Cao Duc Phat.