The agricultural industry needs to keep up with the trend as increasingly strict technical barriers in major markets show that consumer demand is gradually changing.
Prepare for a year of “overcoming headwinds”
This was the suggestion of Minister Le Minh Hoan at the Conference summarizing the Ministry’s direction and administration work in 2023 and the plan to implement Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP in 2024 of the Government on the morning of January 11.
The Minister reiterated the Prime Minister’s praise for “a year when the agricultural sector overcame headwinds, changed status, flexibly adapted, and turned the situation around”. Accordingly, Minister Le Minh Hoan hopes that the enthusiasm and energy of 2023 will strengthen and be multiplied in 2024.
“Last year, interaction stepped out of the local space of each Department, department, school, academy, and public service unit. From there, it helps the coordination between units, between units and businesses, and between units and farmers become more effective and positive,” Minister Le Minh Hoan commented.
However, to prepare for a new year of “overcoming headwinds”, the Commander of the agricultural sector also raised some concerns and suggested some issues.
Faced with rapid changes in technical barriers such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), and Anti-Deforestation Regulations (EUDR), the agricultural sector needs to realize that people World consumers do not buy products but how to make products.
The Minister raised the issue that all questions surrounding agricultural products have an impact on the environment, whether they cause climate change, whether they use child labor… will be necessary factors to bring agriculture to market. Vietnamese products to the world market next to barriers on food safety or quality standards.
Thus, the farming industry in particular and other industries need to think further, with a development path associated with the tasks of low-emission agriculture, green agriculture, and circular agriculture.
“Our intellectual space in the coming time will be greatly expanded and we can create value for the agricultural industry with the condition of reducing seasonal thinking,” Minister Le Minh Hoan called for. .
Besides the realities of the industries, the training factor is also of concern to the Ministry’s leaders. With the current agricultural trend, human resource training in the agricultural industry also needs to “activate a new space”, updating the curriculum so that students can get closer to new concepts such as internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data… so that they can then be new factors applying advanced and new techniques in all fields of livestock and farming. , Seafood…
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also reiterated the trend of “touch to connect”, activating “digitalization” thinking in industry governance and management, gradually getting used to collecting and processing data. , analyzing information on smart devices.
According to Minister Le Minh Hoan, in the short term, it may not be put into synchronous and simultaneous operation immediately, but the thinking of digital governance and digital management needs to begin to be spread, absorbed, and integrated into the planning. annual action plan, through specific and feasible tasks of agencies and units in the agricultural and rural development sector.
This is one of the two central and key tasks that Minister Le Minh Hoan asked units to focus on in 2024. In addition, it is necessary to focus on developing the agricultural sector to reduce emissions associated with green growth, helping agricultural products overcome technical barriers to meet the needs of foreign markets.
Export faces new generation barriers
At the conference, Deputy Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development also expressed opinions related to the Ministry’s direction and administration in 2023 and the plan to implement Resolution No. 01 of 2024 of the Government.
Deputy Minister Hoang Trung affirmed that the direction and administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2023 will be very drastic, timely, close and receive good feedback from localities, recognized by the Government and society.
According to Deputy Minister Hoang Trung, financial management in 2023 is relatively good. However, by 2024, it is still necessary to rebalance, check, and closely evaluate planning, estimating, and promptly adjust arising situations to use resources most effectively.
Regarding all public service units implementing Decree No. 60 regulating the financial autonomy mechanism of public service units, Deputy Minister Hoang Trung proposed to amend and update the entire system. detailed list of public service services using the State budget to build economic and technical norms, resolve problems with norms for projects, service unit prices… Deputy Minister assigns tasks for units, especially focal departments in coordination with the Construction Finance Department.
Deputy Minister Hoang Trung, Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep, Minister Le Minh Hoan and Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam (from left to right) conference Chair.
In addition, Deputy Minister Hoang Trung also requested the Department of Finance to preside with the Department of Animal Health, Department of Plant Protection and Department of Quality, Processing and Market Development to advise the Minister to submit to the Prime Minister a new financial mechanism to solve the problem. resolve resource constraints.
According to leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the work of handling barriers to open the market has been effortful and creative, but this requires a lot of time and many factors.
Regarding the development and amendment of legal documents, including the Decree on guidelines for rice land management, it must be implemented immediately when the revised Land Law is passed in the near future. Deputy Minister Hoang Trung emphasized that this is an important task, there needs to be a specific plan from the order of developing documents and content to ensure the development of a quality Decree guiding the Land Law and meeting the requirements. Government demand.
Sharing some outstanding highlights of the agricultural industry in 2023, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam affirmed that the industry has been fierce and determined to ensure food security while meeting rice export needs.
Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam acknowledged that 2023 is a difficult year for exports due to increasingly strict barriers from the mayor, but the agricultural sector still “overcame difficulties” and rose to ensure an export turnover of 53 billion USD. , especially with key products such as durian, rice… The Deputy Minister said that this achievement has a great contribution from the work of granting planting area codes, direction, and creating conditions to overcome difficulties for export enterprises. .
Besides, in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, many food safety inspection and inspection delegations from Europe, Korea, the United States… came to processing factories and fishing ports in Vietnam, the Ministry has actively deployed Units go to the area to guide businesses to properly implement the food safety system, ensuring export conditions.
Another bright spot emphasized by Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam at the Conference is the smooth coordination between units under the Ministry that has made the success of a series of recent national and international conferences and events such as the Bao Bao Festival. Preserve and develop Vietnamese craft villages, International Festival of Vietnamese rice industry…
“In 2024, in addition to the prediction that the economy will face many difficulties, the agricultural sector needs to prepare for new generation barriers to appear with more requirements on emission reduction and social responsibility…”, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam said.
