In 2020, the agricultural sector sets a target of 3% growth, the export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery products reaches over 43 billion USD.
Large sample field in An Giang. Photo: Trong Dat – VNA
In 2019, despite facing many difficulties and challenges, the entire agricultural sector has made efforts to complete and exceed ¾ of the set targets.
In 2020, the agricultural sector sets a target of 3% growth, the export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery products reaches over 43 billion USD.
Complete and exceed ¾ targets
The year 2019 is an unprecedented disease epidemic in the livestock industry, with exports from agriculture, forestry and fishery facing major adverse changes.
However, the agricultural sector closed in 2019 with the results of completing and exceeding ¾ of the planned target.
The first target exceeding the target is export. In the context of trade conflicts affecting the global economy, some markets (especially China) strictly enforced regulations on importing agricultural and fishery products from Vietnam, discounted agricultural commodities. 10-15% …
However, in 2019, the total export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fisheries is estimated at US $ 41.3 billion, an increase of about 3.5% compared to 2018. In particular, the forestry sector is estimated at over 11 billion. USD, up nearly 20%.
Trade surplus of the whole industry was estimated at a record level of 9.9 billion USD, up 14%, higher than 1.12 billion USD compared to 2018. 10 commodity groups with export turnover of over 1.0 billion USD continue maintained, including 5 items over 3 billion, including: wood and wood products; shrimp; Vegetables; the coffee; cashew.
Notably, in 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has directed units to actively negotiate for more high-value fresh fruits to export to the US, Australia, Japan and China. Quốc …; At the same time, promoting the export of processed chicken to Japan; exporting suckling pigs to Malaysia and Hong Kong; Honey exports to EU, USA.
For the fishery sector, the US has recognized the equivalent of Vietnamese catfish products, reducing import tax of tra and shrimp from our country to the US, mostly at 0%; China has officially approved the import of 48 live aquatic species and 128 kinds of semi-processed and processed aquatic products from Vietnam.
In the forestry sector, the ratification and implementation of the VPA / FLEGT Agreement and participation in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have brought many opportunities for the wood and forest product processing and export industry. .
The next two completed targets are the forest coverage rate of 41.85% and the rate of communes meeting the new rural criteria of 54% with 111 district units meeting / completing new rural construction tasks. .
The target of low GDP growth is 2.2%. The reason for the low agricultural growth in 2019 is mainly due to the African swine cholera epidemic (which reduces about 1.1% of the industry growth).
Achieving the above result is due to many factors combined. Including the investment environment continues to improve, creating a new rebound in investment in agriculture.
In 2019, the country had 17 investment projects in agriculture with a total investment of over 20,000 billion VND, which was inaugurated and put into operation.
Producing and processing wooden products for export at Da Lat Exploiting and Processing Forest Products Company (Lam Dong). Photo: VNA
The force of agricultural enterprises continued to grow strongly with 2,756 newly established agricultural enterprises in 2019, an increase of 25.3% compared to 2018, bringing the total number of agricultural enterprises to 12,581 enterprises, up 36.23%. .
In particular, agriculture, forestry and fishery is one of the areas with the number of enterprises returning to operation significantly higher than the number of suspensions.
Speaking at the summation conference for agriculture sector in 2019 (December 23, 2019), Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that Vietnam's agriculture sector has not contributed a large and rich budget but it has contributed a lot. The majority of Vietnamese farmers live in rural areas because over 60% of the population are rural farmers. Therefore, agriculture is a very interested Party and State.
The Prime Minister noted that despite many difficulties and challenges, the whole industry has achieved many goals. In those results, the Prime Minister mentioned that Vietnam's rice ST 25 was honored as “the best rice in the world” and emphasized the support of the official market to control the quality and food safety of the country. people. Trafficking through small businesses can cause many problems such as negative and corruption.
The Prime Minister highly appreciated that in 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has accompanied and created a favorable environment to support and encourage cooperative economic development and enterprises to become a driving force for agricultural development.
This is also the year that the National Target Program on rural construction has achieved many achievements, reaching the goal early before one and a half years.
At the same time, the industry has actively and synchronously and synchronously implemented from the central to local levels in the prevention and control of African swine cholera so it has markedly positive effect, minimizing losses. .
Disaster prevention and control activities have been carried out proactively and methodically, the number of deaths and missing people decreased to 130 (in 2018, 224 people); economic loss of about VND 7,000 billion (in 2017 was VND 63,000 billion) …
Striving to be in the top 10 of the world for exporting key agricultural products
In addition to the achieved results, Vietnam's agricultural sector still has limitations, difficulties and challenges that need to be focused on overcoming in the coming time.
Specifically, agricultural restructuring has been unevenly deployed in localities; innovating and developing organizational forms of production that have not met the requirements.
Besides, the growth rate of export turnover showed signs of slowing down due to the decline in export prices of major agricultural products; progress of solving EC “yellow card” for fishing is still slow …
Processing rubber latex for export at Dau Tieng Rubber Farm, Binh Duong province. Photo: Duong Chi Tuong-TTXVN
Worryingly, diseases on crops and livestock are always at risk of outbreaks, especially African swine cholera has been widespread and complicated, greatly affecting the growth rate of the industry; Food safety management is still very difficult and complicated.
In addition, the gap in the results of new rural construction among regions and regions is quite large. Many regions are lower than the national level, showing the allocation of resources, methods of direction, methods of mobilizing resources are not appropriate, effective …
In 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development assesses that the world and regional situation is forecasted to continue complicated and unpredictable developments such as: the economy grows slowly; trade wars among major economies, many countries have increased the use of technical barriers and trade safeguard measures to protect domestic production.
At the summation meeting of the agricultural sector, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized that in 2020, there are many important events of the Party, the State and the agricultural sector must play a better role to solve difficult problems for life. , for production, import and export. Must know the forecast of the weather situation, international competition in the field of agriculture, disease problems, protection trends, technical barriers … are increasing.
The Prime Minister suggested Vietnam's agriculture to achieve some targets in 2020, such as: GDP growth rate in agriculture sector reached 3%; export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery reached over 43 billion USD; forest coverage rate is 42%; the rate of reaching new rural standards is 59%, at least 121 district-level units have met the standards of fulfilling the task of building new rural areas.
By 2025, the Prime Minister proposed to achieve an average GDP growth of 3-3.5%, with 5 more agricultural exports of US $ 1 billion or more to bring Vietnam. The country has 15 agricultural products with export value of US $ 1 billion or more with a total export value of US $ 50 billion, ranking first in ASEAN and in the top 10 of the world.
Striving to have 25,000 enterprises directly invest in agriculture, doubling the current number, 35,000 agricultural cooperatives, 2.3 times as much as the core to serve the agricultural restructuring.
Striving to have 80% of communes meet new rural standards, the income of farmers reaches 80 million VND / year, 2 times the current.
To accomplish these goals, the Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to focus on performing a number of tasks, such as restructuring the agricultural sector; promote the application of high technology; strengthening processing and preservation of agricultural products; produce according to market signals and requirements; expand market development; keep the quality and prestige of agricultural products; complete infrastructure for rural agriculture; flexible and effective use of rice land area; soon get back the EC's green card for fisheries, not to get red card…
