The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho’s agro-forestry-fishery output for this year is 13.5 trillion VND (578.5 million USD), 4.1 percent higher than the target, according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The pooling of fields to create large-scale fields and cooperatives for growing clean produce in southern Dong Nai province has benefited farmers and companies.
As many as 294 out of the 386 communes in Hanoi, or 76.16 percent, have been recognised as new-style rural areas, said the municipal steering board of the programme on agriculture development and new-style rural area construction for 2016-2020.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of agriculture, forestry and fishery is estimated to expand from 3.95 percent to 4.05 percent in the first six months of 2018, the highest level in 10 recent years.
The Government of Vietnam is committed to implementing initiatives of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), including those on high-tech organic agriculture, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Science-technology is a breakthrough solution to green and high-value agriculture development, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.
Gao commune in Pleiku city of the Central Highlands of Gia Lai has been recognised as new-style rural area, announced at a ceremony held by the Steering Board for National Target Programme of the province on March 30.
More than 15,000 farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang will benefit from the Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation project (VnSAT), said Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Truong Canh Tuyen.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) will continue to work towards an institutional breakthrough for promoting the agglomeration of land for large-scale agricultural production.
The south central coastal province of Ninh Thuan has implemented measures to improve living standards of ethnic minority citizens.
Measures to build linkages towards sustainable rice production chains in the context of climate change were the focus of a workshop held in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue plans to zone off an additional 5,500 hectares of large-scale fields to meet the target of cultivating 51,000-52,000 hectares of rice per year by 2020.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the southern province of Dong Nai has approved zoning off 31 large-scale fields to cultivate durian, pepper and cocoa in the locality.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is focusing on 12 priority projects worth nearly 1,196 billion VND (52 million USD) to speed up agricultural restructuring between now and 2020.
Tra Vinh is encouraging local farmers to cultivate other food crops in the place of rice on around 7,900 hectares of farming land in areas prone to climate change impacts.
Departments, agencies and sectors of the Mekong Delta city of Ca Tho have been urged to focus on the implementation of measures to enhance the quality of large-scale fields.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ministries, sectors and localities to work hard to enhance the added-value of Vietnamese rice.
Developing Vietnam’s coffee industry in response to climate change and international integration was discussed at a recent workshop in Buon Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.
