Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan on November 24 held a working session with the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to carry out a project on tasks and measures realising outcomes of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Secretary of the Party Committee of Quang Nam province Phan Viet Cuong on August 22 received Let Xaynhaphon, Secretary of the Party Committee of Laos’s Attapeu province, who is leading a delegation to visit the Vietnamese central locality.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Can Tho city held a working session with a delegation from the Dutch Embassy on August 9, during which the two sides exchanged views on the Mekong Delta’s sustainable agricultural transformation.
The northern province of Quang Ninh is taking steps to boost high-tech agriculture to cut production costs, increase volumes, and cultivate high-quality farm produce.
Vietnamese with an agriculture visa will certainly be welcome to farms and regional communities across Australia, Chief Executive Tony Mahar of the Australian National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has said.
The northern province of Bac Giang will continue to restructure its agriculture sector from now to 2025, focusing on supporting and investing in hi-tech agriculture development, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le O Pich.
The Cambodian government on February 14 announced an additional 100 million USD funding for two State-owned banks to assist the agriculture sector and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
As a challenging 2021 comes to the end, the agricultural sector has overcome a host of difficulties posed by Covid-19 and surpassed many of its targets a month early, strengthening its role as a strong pillar of the country’s economy.
National Assembly deputy Duong Khac Mai proposed to further promote the reorganisation of production according to the farmer linkage chain, establish and improve the operational efficiency of cooperative groups and cooperatives.
The agricultural sector, one of the pillars of the domestic economy, has plans to restore production in the south immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled.
The agriculture sector became the economy's bright spot in the first seven months of this year, posting a trade surplus of 3.9 billion USD in the period.
According to the State Bank of Vietnam’s department of credit for economic sectors, as of April credit injected into rural and agricultural development had reached 2.3 quadrillion VND (100 billion USD), or 24.6 percent of the banking sector’s total loans.
Representatives of the agriculture sector of Vietnam and Australia have agreed to accelerate work to allow the import of more farm produce of each other at the recent third Vietnam – Australia agriculture forum.
The agriculture sector is set to earn 41 billion USD from export in 2021, according to Vu Ba Phu, head of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working to promote the distribution of farm products amid the fourth outbreak of COVID-19 in Vietnam as well as establish a resilient agriculture sector.
The agricultural sector needs to focus on developing raw materials to reduce the dependence on imports as well as improve processing capacity, experts said.
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