According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first 9 months, the agriculture maintained a good growth rate of 2.02%, contributing to the overall growth of the country. In particular, fishery increased by 6.12%, forestry by 3.98%.
Agricultural sector maintained good growth, reaching 2.02%.
At the third regular press conference held on the afternoon of October 14, Mr. Le Van Thanh, Chief of Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that in May 9, 2019, the agricultural sector was greatly affected by the developments. abnormalities of weather causing droughts and floods in some places (Central Highlands, North and South Central); African pig cholera outbreaks and complicated developments; difficulties in export markets, especially the change to official import of the Chinese market …
In this context, the whole industry has made great efforts to overcome difficulties and achieved positive results, many of its manufacturing sectors still achieved high results. First of all, the whole industry maintained a good growth rate of 2.02%, contributing to the overall growth of the country; in which fishery increased by 6.12%, forestry by 3.98%.
Remarkably, in the context of difficult market, the price of most agricultural products decreased by 10-15%, export turnover still reached 30.02 billion USD, up 2.7% over the same period. 2018.
In particular, there are 6 groups / products with export value of over 2 billion USD, including: Wood and wooden products (7.5 billion USD, up 16.8%); coffee (2.1 billion USD, down 21.8%); rice (nearly 2.24 billion USD, down 9.8%), cashew nuts (2.4 billion USD, down 5.4%); vegetables and fruits (US $ 2.15 billion, down 4.3%) and shrimp (US $ 2.4 billion, down 8.0%). The trade surplus of the whole industry in 9 months reached 6.86 billion USD, about 1 billion USD higher than the same period of 2018.
According to Mr. Thanh, over the past time, the whole sector has focused on implementing synchronous solutions to boost trade promotion activities, remove trade barriers, expand export markets, especially focusing on removing overcome difficulties with the Chinese market, opening new markets for many export products such as mango to the US, UK, Australia …
“By the end of August, the export value of agricultural products from Vietnam to China reached 5.31 billion USD; The US reached 5.35 billion USD. Import of agricultural products from China to Vietnam is US $ 1.53 billion and the US is US $ 2.51 billion, ”Mr. Thanh added.
In the EU market, the agricultural sector will focus on working with EU authorities to remove the yellow card for exported seafood.
The last 3 months of the year focused on pushing exports to 5 major markets
They are China, USA, EU, Japan and Korea.
The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also said that, before the impact from the US-China trade conflict on agriculture, in the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. , Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has implemented many solutions to remove difficulties and promote exports of agriculture, forestry and fishery products.
Specifically, for the Chinese market, in the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry will implement solutions: Promote propaganda and training sharing information, supporting exporting agricultural products to the Chinese market; once every 3 months, hold meetings to exchange and coordinate with the People's Committees of border provinces to promptly grasp and remove difficulties and obstacles to handle or report them to the concerned Chinese agencies in time. remove.
In addition, to continue negotiating, opening markets, removing barriers for agricultural and aquatic products, such as exporting the first batch of milk to China in October 2019; accelerate the risk assessment process for early export of swallow nest; Durian, passion fruit, sweet potato; Butter, black jelly; Grapefruit, Coconut, Na and remove difficulties for 2 rice exporters of Vietnam … ..
For the US market, the Ministry will continue to promote the United States to soon recognize the equivalent of Vietnam's pangasius exports in order to boost Pangasius export to the US; focusing on removing technical barriers, solving problems of fishery products in the US markets (SIMP Seafood Import Monitoring Program applies many control regulations on aquatic products including shrimp, tuna, swordfish, abalone, sea cucumber; Farm Bill program).
The EU market will focus on working with EU authorities to remove the yellow card for seafood exports, while harmonizing seafood control regulations in accordance with international practices; promoting promotion and export of agricultural products after the Vietnam-EU FTA Free Trade Agreement was signed …
Regarding Japan and South Korea, focus on negotiating and opening markets for fruit products to Japan, including longan, lychee, grapefruit, rambutan, and breast milk. Organize promotion of agricultural products into large distribution supermarket chains (such as AEON) in Japan; solve problems in quarantine of aquatic product quality in Korea …
Sharing at the press conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien emphasized that, together with focusing on export markets, the Ministry will offer specific solutions for each commodity such as planting. cultivation; breed; aquatic products; forestry … to ensure the growth target of the whole industry in 2019.
Thu Phuong
Source: baodautu.vn
