Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan frankly stated many limitations in order to strongly switch to agricultural economic thinking, in the immediate future, to complete the dual goals of the industry in 2021.
At the meeting to review the work of the first 6 months of the year and deploy the work for the last 6 months of the year of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on June 30, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan assessed that in the first 6 months of 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – Rural Development promptly proactively advised the Government and the Prime Minister, and at the same time coordinated with ministries, branches and localities to drastically implement synchronously tasks and solutions to remove difficulties in order to achieve the goal. double target.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan spoke at the conference. Photo: Manh Thang.
In particular, despite being greatly affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, but in the first 6 months of 2021, food production and food production were very abundant, contributing to ensuring social security in the country, meeting good domestic demand and export service. New rural construction, forest planting and protection, food safety, basic construction… all have had good results.
Supply chain, consumption of agricultural products is still bottleneck
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However, Minister Le Minh Hoan also frankly acknowledged that the agricultural industry still has many shortcomings in the first half of 2021. In which, there are long-standing problems that are being identified and focused by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. decide.
Regarding production and market relations, the agricultural industry is shifting from thinking about agricultural production to thinking about agricultural economy. The current growth in agricultural production is often due to increased productivity, increased output of agriculture, forestry and fishery. That proves that our production capacity, productivity and output of agricultural products are good.
However, does the actual increase in output mean that the added value of that product increases? Product makers, especially farmers, will benefit more or not; Whether or not there is enough power to reinvest and reproduce sustainably in the context of increasing input materials is an issue that needs to be recognized and evaluated.
Supply chains, consumption of agricultural products and food still have bottlenecks and faults. Photo: Minh Hau.
Minister Le Minh Hoan gave an example: The winter-spring crop 2020-2021 across the country is good and well priced, but in the summer-autumn crop, domestic rice prices and export prices begin to decrease. Many kinds of vegetables and fruit prices in the country fell sharply, while the prices of fertilizers, animal feeds… tended to increase continuously.
“The output is high, but the agricultural industry still has to find solutions, calling on people, social organizations and businesses to support the consumption of agricultural products. There is still a situation of surplus, cheap and unsold agricultural products, but domestic consumers, especially in urban areas, still have to buy food and food at high prices, proving the supply chain and consumption of agricultural products. , food still has certain bottlenecks and fractures”, the Minister pondered.
Regarding consumption of agricultural products, Minister Le Minh Hoan assessed that in the past time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has directed its subordinate units to coordinate with businesses and localities to implement many solutions, but it seems that only stop at handling specific cases and events.
The implementation of solutions to remove difficulties and organize trade promotion activities to promote the consumption of agricultural products in the “post-Covid-19” period is still slow due to the complicated situation, many countries The country is still in lockdown, restricting travel. This is also an issue that needs to be addressed in the near future.
The rate of consumers knowing about OCOP products is still limited
According to Minister Le Minh Hoan, the organization and concretization of policies to support production and business, policies for linking production and consumption of safe agricultural products and food in many localities is still slow. and limited in size.
Meanwhile, the innovation and development of production organization forms, although there have been many advances, have not yet met the requirements. The development of agricultural cooperatives in quantity is quite good, but the quality and sustainability are still limited; The stage of organizing links along the value chain associated with enterprises is not yet popular.
Regarding the construction of new rural areas (NTM), the number of communes meeting the standards of rural areas recognized for many reasons may not achieve the set target. Some localities also show signs of following the movement in recognizing OCOP products, not paying attention to the effectiveness of the program, especially to arouse the potential and advantages of OCOP products in rural areas.
Currently, there are 4,847 OCOP products recognized as 3 stars or higher in the whole country, but the percentage of consumers who know about these OCOP products is still limited.
The “commander” of the agricultural sector frankly assessed that he followed the movement in the recognition of OCOP products. Photo: TL.
Regarding science and technology, many scientific products have been created and applied, but have not yet met the requirements and requirements of practice. Linkage, cooperation in scientific research, technology transfer between scientists, between research groups, between institutes and schools within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, between institutes and schools of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and enterprises are still loose, leading to low investment efficiency and impractical research products.
The application, transfer, dissemination and replication of research results have not been systematized. Facilities for scientific research are still fragmented, lack of synchronization, lack of concentration, and inefficient exploitation.
In addition, information technology and digital transformation of the agriculture and rural development sector are still weak, and the general index of administrative reform of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2020 is still ranked high. The construction and completion of the online public service portal and the Ministry’s one-stop information system integrated into the national system is still slow. Many administrative procedures have not been monitored and evaluated in a timely manner…
Scientific research has not met the requirements and requirements of practice. Photo: TL.
Minister Le Minh Hoan also said that the basic construction and disbursement of projects, although higher than the national average, have not yet met the needs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Economic non-business capital directly serving the direction and administration activities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is still limited.
The direction and administration work, a number of key tasks still lack the focus on direction and coordination, so the results and quality are still not high, especially in the development of legal documents.
Some legal documents are still slow to promulgate. Policy consultation and opinion collection in the process of elaborating legal documents are still low and formal.
The arrangement and renewal of agro-forestry companies is still behind schedule, not close to reality, especially the role of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as the role of the locality needs to be clear and clearly demonstrated.
Actively forecast, avoid passive consumption of agricultural products
Regarding the groups of key solutions to achieve the goals of the Agriculture and Rural Development sector plan from now until the end of 2021, Minister Le Minh Hoan directed affiliated units to review their 6-month goals, plans and tasks. by the end of 2021 to target the development of the industry in the direction of thinking about agricultural economic development.
Especially, minimizing input materials, using environmentally friendly agricultural materials, ensuring food safety, improving processing, developing high value-added consumption markets, focusing on bringing farmers and stakeholders into production linkages.
Besides, step by step solve the problem of relationship between production and market. In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had a meeting and agreed on the activities of the Steering Committee for Agricultural Product Development of the Ministry, will continue to strengthen the Steering Committee, review additional activities, establish the thematic groups, with special attention being paid to the group’s activities, providing statistical data and forecasting on the quantity and output of agricultural products early before each season for planning and consumption plans. .
Input materials must be minimized, using environmentally friendly agricultural materials, and ensuring food safety.
Accordingly, there must be a method to get information and data close to reality, in the immediate future, to serve the consumption of seasonal agricultural products in the last months of 2021, to avoid being passive.
Minister Le Minh Hoan assigned the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) to preside over the research and development of reports on the export of agricultural products in the past 5 years as well as strategies and plans for the 5 years. based on opinions from experts, relevant ministries…
Regarding agricultural extension work, the National Center for Agricultural Extension was assigned to conduct research and innovate agricultural extension work in the direction of cooperation between state agricultural extension and enterprise agricultural extension, strengthening the agricultural extension work of the State. research institutes, agricultural extension according to commodity chains, train farmers to access knowledge of farming and agro-business, support schools of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in agricultural vocational training…
Minister Le Minh Hoan also assigned IPSARD to coordinate with the Legal Department to study and diversify forms and policies to encourage expansion of land accumulation in accordance with regional characteristics and business needs.
Assign the Central Office of Rural Development to carefully prepare for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to submit to the National Assembly for approval the policy of the National Target Program to build new rural areas in July 2021.
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