Outstanding achievements in the 2016-2020 period
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has just held a seminar “Consult with the draft of the agricultural sector restructuring plan for the period 2021 – 2025”.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the period 2016 – 2020, the overall goal of the restructuring of the agricultural sector is to continue with orientation on the three pillars of economy, society and environment with a specific goal of development. sustainable agriculture and rural areas, increasing added value, efficiency and competitiveness, faster improving the lives of farmers, contributing to poverty reduction, protecting the ecological environment and contributing to protecting security and defense.
Vietnam’s agriculture has successfully completed its food security mission, becoming a major exporter of agricultural products in the past period. Photo: Le Hoang Vu
For economic goals, by 2020, the GDP growth rate of the whole industry will reach about 3% / year, the average labor productivity growth rate of the agricultural sector will reach 3.5% / year, the proportion of agricultural workers. decreased below 40%, the proportion of agricultural workers with training certificates reached about 22%.
In terms of social goals, in the period 2016 – 2020, industry growth is maintained, income and living standards of rural people are increasingly improved. Rural residents’ income has increased from 32 million VND / person in 2016 to 39.3 million VND / person in 2019 and is estimated to reach 43 million VND / person in 2020, 1.92 times more than 2015, 50%. the number of communes meeting new rural standards, 15,000 cooperatives and the effective agricultural cooperative union have significantly contributed to poverty reduction in rural areas.
With the environmental objectives, in the period 2016 – 2020, the capacity of natural disaster prevention is increasingly improved, activities are organized more comprehensively, gradually shifting from passive response to proactive prevention. The management and use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides is increasingly strict, increasing production and use of organic fertilizers. Forest coverage rate in 2019 will reach 41.85%, by 2020 is estimated at 42% …
Develop in depth, while ensuring food security
At the seminar, many agencies, representatives of ministries, experts, international organizations, associations and businesses … participated in many opinions, orientations and policies for the Ministry of Agriculture- Rural Development to develop the agricultural restructuring plan for the period 2021-2025.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan wishes to continue receiving comments and donations for the restructuring of the agricultural sector in the period of 2021-2025 to submit to the Government for promulgation in the coming time. Photo: Trung Quan
Former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong said that the agricultural restructuring in the next period should be associated with building a new countryside.
In addition, the agricultural sector restructuring goal in the 2021-2025 period still needs to focus on ensuring food security, creating nutritious products and ensuring food hygiene and safety.
Mr. Bong emphasized that in the restructuring of agriculture according to ecological regions, it is necessary to specify comparative advantages of each region, specify which products are the competitive advantages of that region, as well as specify the difficulties. characteristics that that ecological region encounters. From there, it is possible to give specific orientations and solutions for the sustainable development of that region.
In addition, the proposal of solutions for agricultural restructuring should focus on four basic “bottlenecks”: Mechanism and policy of land accumulation; reforming production modes from small, individual to larger-scale production methods; improve infrastructure and improve scientific and technological development capacity.
At the seminar, the representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Vietnam said that Vietnam’s agricultural sector in the coming period is facing many challenges such as: The competitiveness is increasingly low compared to the economic fields. other health; weak global competitiveness due to low quality, resulting from output-centric orientation in the past period; the speed and capacity of digital conversion is low compared to other industries; small scale of farm households is still large …
In that context, the mission of Vietnam’s agriculture sector to here still must ensure food security for over 100 million people, ensure sufficient quantity, balance in nutrition and safety and hygiene. Ensuring livelihoods for more than 9 million farming households (about 26 million rural workers); providing input materials for the food industry; environmental, environmental and biodiversity protection …
The vision of Vietnam’s agriculture sector in the coming period, in addition to ensuring food and food security, must also become a responsible, sustainable and competitive supplier of food and food. and enhance brand value …
Vietnam needs to aim to become a responsible and sustainable food and food supplier, with competitiveness and branding. Photo: TL
Many delegates who are leaders of departments, representatives of ministries, synergies, businesses … also devote many solutions and orientations that need to be focused on in the period 2021-2025 for the agricultural sector, in which especially it is necessary to improve the quality of agricultural products, in-depth production, and increase the value chain; strengthening production links more closely between farmers – cooperatives – businesses; improving access to policies, helping farmers, cooperatives and businesses to access policies more easily; focus on reform of land policy; policy on agricultural insurance; promote science and technology as the foundation and driving force, especially access to high technologies, smart technologies in production applications …
According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, agricultural restructuring in the context of the world is in a state of “volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity”, Vietnam’s economy in general and the agricultural sector. Industry in particular is facing great challenges. Therefore, agricultural workers must actively adapt to all changes.
Deputy Minister Le Minh Hoan said that in the current agricultural sector of Vietnam, there are many conflicts that need to be resolved such as: The conflict between development and challenges and threats from climate change. extreme. Conflict between the desire to profit in the short term of the business, of the farmer and the thinking of building a long-term development strategy in restructuring the agricultural sector.
The contradiction between the overall integration policy and the local ideology is happening in social life, locally among enterprises, between farmers, even locally among state management agencies. Conflict between development undertakings and goals of each different locality and the creation of regional chains …
In addition, the cooperative culture of all stakeholders involved in building links such as farmers, businesses, scientists, regulators … is not tight, still fragmented, or even stepped on each other. .
Deputy Minister Le Minh Hoan wishes that in the coming time, continue to receive contributions and donations from numerous agencies, state management organizations, experts, scientists, enterprises, farmers … above The whole country aims to continue perfecting the agricultural restructuring plan for the period 2021-2025.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will seriously preside over, synthesize and research to develop the sector structure plan for the period 2021-2025 to submit to the Government for promulgation in the coming time.
