Firms in the northern province of Hai Duong on January 11 shipped nearly 250 tonnes of carrots to the Republic of Korea (RoK), the first overseas shipment of the vegetable this year.
With a growth target of more than 4.1 percent this year, Hanoi's agricultural sector is focusing on developing production, implementing winter crop production, and preparing goods for the year-end market and Tet (Lunar New Year).
Hanoi’s agriculture sector is facing a host of difficulties from the COVID-19 pandemic that require it continue with restructuring and switch to new crops to ensure growth.
Northern provinces and cities plan to cultivate rice on 1.105 million ha of land in the winter-spring rice crop in 2019-2020, down 11,400 ha compared to one year ago, it was reported at a conference in Ha Nam province on October 22.
The summer-autumn rice crop in southern localities has yielded a good harvest, heard a conference held in the Mekong Delta province of Tay Ninh on July 20.
The People’s Committee of central Thanh Hoa province has approved funds of nearly 20 billion VND (869,000 USD) for 2017-2018 winter crop restoration in the wake of recent floods.
Northern localities plan to expand their combined farming area to 430,000 hectares in the upcoming winter crop, 20,000 hectares larger than the 2015 winter crop, aiming to earn up to 25 trillion VND.
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