Vietnam’s agricultural sector records progress
Over the past years, Vietnam’s agricultural sector has reaped marked achievements, helping ensure national food security.
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Over the past years, Vietnam’s agricultural sector has reaped marked achievements, helping ensure national food security.
The pepper industry plans to reduce the area under the spice and focus on improving quality to ensure long-term growth, according to the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece Terens - Nikolaos Quick on December 10 said Vietnam possesses massive potential for European Union (EU) exporters and investors to do business, both now and in the future.
Provinces in the Mekong Delta that grow coconut are setting up cooperative teams and finding buyers to help farmers recover from low prices over the last 12 months.
In recent years, farmers in Hong Ly commune, Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province have grown fields of different flowers to attract visitors from far and wide. This has improved the livelihood of local
Vietnam holds great advantages to export agricultural products to European Union (EU) countries, whose soil is not suitable for the cultivation of tropical farm produce, experts said.
To promote rural tourism, it is necessary to pay attention to community benefits and cultural and environmental protection, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.
Developing special agricultural products in tandem with tourism has helped farmers in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan promote on-the-spot consumption of their produce.
Dak Lak, the country’s largest coffee growing province, plans to reduce the area under the crop from 204,800ha now to 180,000ha by 2030, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Hai Ninh.
Nearly 1,000 representatives, speaking for the more than 10 million farmers across the nation, will attend the seventh Congress of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) which will take place in Hanoi from December 11-13.
Vietnam will work to reform its peppercorn sector towards high quality production and food safety, instead of expanding cultivation areas, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong has said.
A workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 4 to seek measures for boosting public-private partnerships (PPP) towards sustainably developing Vietnam’s coffee sector – one of the world’s leading coffee exporters.
Vice Chairman of the Binh Phuoc province People’s Committee Huynh Anh Minh had a working session with representatives from Nedspice Vietnam, a spice processing firm of the Netherlands, on enhancing cooperation in trade promotion and the sustainable production of the locality’s pepper products.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working with authorities to prevent the infiltration of the fast-spreading African Swine Flu into Vietnam.
The Hai Duong commune, of Hai Hau district, Nam Dinh province has been a long-standing home to areca trees. In recent years, the plant has helped local people improve their livelihood.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has developed new agricultural production models that provide farmers with a reliable income to cope with climate change in its eastern districts and Go Cong town.
Climate change is the biggest challenge to Vietnam and the agricultural sector, and farmers and the poor are the most vulnerable. In response, a number of measures have been taken by the country to mitigate climate change.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism reviewed the 10-year enforcement of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control at a conference in Hanoi on November 28.
