Agricultural industry overcomes difficulties, strives to achieve development goals

1. Highlights

One is,the whole industry maintained a fairly high growth rate of 2.02%, contributing to the overall growth of the country; in which fishery increased by 6.12%, forestry by 3.98%.

Secondly,In the livestock sector, due to the great impact of the African swine cholera epidemic, pork production decreased by 8.0% and the production value decreased by 0.6%. But with great care and direction, closely follow the Secretariat of the Central Party Committee, the Government, and the Prime Minister(first)and the fierce and synchronous participation of the whole political system from the central to local levels, the prevention of epidemic disease has been effective, the disease has tended to decrease in the past four months, making an important contribution to disease control, maintenance of pig production and conversion, increasing production of poultry, large cattle, aquaculture … to meet pork substitutes … As a result, production of products Other husbandry increased, such as: buffalo meat reached 70.5 thousand tons, up 3.1%; beef reached 264.9 thousand tons, up 4.2%; poultry meat reached 931.4 thousand tons, up 13.5%; eggs reached 9.2 billion, an increase of 10.0%. milk increased by 9.3%, …

Thirdly,In the context of difficult market conditions, prices of most agricultural commodities decreased by 10-15%, but export turnover still reached USD 30.02 billion, up 2.7% compared to the same period in 2018; in which export value of main forest products was 7.93 billion USD, up 18%; Especially, there are 6 groups / products with export value of more than USD 2 billion, including: Wood and wood products (USD 7.5 billion, up 16.8% and expected to reach the export target of USD 11 billion). year 2019.); coffee (US $ 2.1 billion, down 21.8%), rice (nearly US $ 2.24 billion, down 9.8%), cashews (US $ 2.4 billion, down 5.4%), vegetables, fruits (US $ 2.15 billion, down 4.3%), shrimp (US $ 2.4 billion, down 8.0%). Trade surplus reached 6.86 billion USD, about 1 billion USD higher than the same period in 2018.

The fourth is,So far, all countries have had 4,554 communes (51.16%) meet the new rural standard (exceeding the whole year target of 50% and the National Target Program on building a new countryside to reach the target 1.5 years ahead of the set target); Yes 100/ 664District-level units (accounting for more than 15%) are recognized as qualified / completed new rural construction tasks (exceeding 30 district-level units compared to the whole-year target of 2019), with 7 provinces and centrally-run cities. complete the task of building a new countryside; On average, the whole country reached 15.32 criteria / commune, no longer a commune with less than 5 criteria.

2. Focus on promoting AFF exports to some key markets

The whole sector has focused on implementing synchronous solutions to promote trade promotion activities, remove trade barriers, expand export markets; especially focusing on removing difficulties with the Chinese market, opening new markets for many export products, such as mangoes to the US(2), UK, Australia … By the end of August 2019, the export value of agricultural products from Vietnam to China reached 5.31 billion; United States reached 5.35 billion USD; Agricultural imports from China to Vietnam were 1.53 billion and the United States was 2.51 billion USD.

Facing the impact from the US-China trade conflict on the agricultural sector, in the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry will implement solutions: i) push strong propaganda, training to share information, support export of agricultural products to the Chinese market; once every 3 months, hold a meeting to exchange and coordinate with the People's Committees of border provinces in order to promptly grasp and remove difficulties and obstacles to handle or reflect them to the concerned Chinese agencies in a timely manner. remove. ii) 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 02 enterprises exporting rice of Vietnam. iii) establish a mechanism for exchanging information, coordinating to handle problems related to agricultural and aquatic product import and export activities between MARD, the General Department of China Customs and leaders of border provinces on both sides of Vietnam. – China for the application of packaging, labeling, traceability, export certificates, and animal and plant quarantine issues.

For the US market will continue to promote the request of the United States to soon recognize equivalent pangasius exports of Vietnam 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). Still EU market will focus on working with EU authorities to remove yellow cards for exported seafood, while harmonizing seafood control regulations in accordance with international practices; promote promotion and export of agricultural products after the Vietnam-EU FTA Free Trade Agreement has been signed; export timber and timber products directly to EU markets through the implementation of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade in Forest Products (VPA / FLEGT) between Vietnam and EU. Japanese and Korean markets 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; removing obstacles in quarantine of aquatic product quality into Korea; harmonize regulations on sustainable timber management to promote the export of timber and wood products to the Korean market. Proposing the Korean side to open the market for processed chicken products and salted poultry eggs.

3. Strive to achieve development goals

The agricultural production results in the past 9 months show that, in order to ensure growth goals, the whole sector needs to focus on deploying tasks and solutions to ensure the development growth goals of the industry:

– Cultivation: Continue to monitor and direct the care and harvest of Summer-Autumn, Winter-Autumn and Winter rice in the Southern provinces; direct the harvest of Seasons rice and sowing Winter-2019 crops in Northern provinces.

– Breeding: Implement synchronous solutions to prevent and control African swine fever, blue ear, foot and mouth disease; strengthen directing the work of repairing losses in the pigs. Guide localities to apply biosafety breeding methods to re-breed and expand the herd of pigs in non-epidemic areas and establishments and have enough conditions to raise biosafety; direct and speed up production scale and growth of poultry and grazing cattle. Continue to monitor and closely follow the supply and demand of livestock products, closely steer production and business plans to ensure sufficient supply for domestic and export demand, especially during Tet, ..; guide enterprises to organize the formulation and implementation of projects on pork and chicken meat production chains to be free from epidemic diseases and implement solutions to limit the increase in prices of animal feed and raw material prices. manufacturing.

– Fisheries: Implement synchronously, drastically and effectively the recommendations made by the European Union to Vietnam to regain the “green card” and work towards sustainable marine fisheries development; Organize missions to check the implementation of anti-IUU solutions in localities; training to implement recommendations of the European Commission on IUU. Improve the quality of exploitation; reorganizing production on the sea under the model of cooperation and chain link; promote international cooperation to exploit marine products, ensure their association with the protection and development of resources and contribute to the protection of sovereignty over sea and islands;

– Forestry: Implementing the implementation plan of VPA / FLEGT Agreement; forest protection and development plan, replacement afforestation and payment for forest environmental services; strict management of seedlings quality;

– Irrigation and natural disaster prevention: Regularly monitor the weather, hydro-meteorology of flows and reservoir water; urge and guide localities in implementing measures to prevent and combat drought and saltwater intrusion …; strengthen inspection and ensure safety of river dikes, sea dikes, irrigation works;

– Improving the efficiency of food quality management and safety, continuing to handle market issues in order to create favorable conditions for seafood export; implement the sampling plan for food, agricultural, forestry and fishery food monitoring, propose handling measures, organize unexpected inspection.

– Accelerate the implementation of capital construction investment projects, urge project owners and investors to accelerate the implementation, disbursement to ensure the plan. Check and closely supervise the quality of construction works; ensure work safety before and during the rainy season./.