Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 chaired a conference where he worked with the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFOREST) and the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) to seek solutions to hurdles facing forestry-fishery production and exports.
Vietnam has continued to make gains in agro-forestry-fishery production, and seen increases in agricultural exports thanks to its successful COVID-19 containment.
Amid the strong growth of the fisheries sector, the preservation and restoration of fisheries resources and the protection of biodiversity have become a focus of the sector and coastal localities towards developing a sustainable, modern and responsible fisheries sector.
Vietnam raked in 30.05 billion USD from exporting agro-forestry-aquatic products in the first three quarters of 2020 and the value is hoped to hit over 40 billion USD for the whole year, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has called for more efforts to push aquatic product export turnover to 10 billion USD in 2019.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on December 12 requested the Vietnamese Farmers’ Union (VFU) to better perform its role in connecting the Party and State with farmers, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of farmers, and proposing policies for agriculture, farmer and rural development.
Vietnam earned about 29.54 billion USD from agro-forestry-fishery exports between January and September, up 9.3 percent from the same period of 2017 and equivalent to 73 percent of this year’s target.
Kien Giang province has gained initial encouraging outcomes in recovering and developing its coastal protection forests amid coastal erosion and climate change worsening across the Mekong Delta region.
The southern province of Dong Nai estimated local agro-forestry-fishery production value at 17.17 trillion VND (over 756.8 million USD) in the first half of 2017, up 2.48 percent year on year.
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