Difficulties and challenges, especially coping with salty drought in the Winter-Spring crop of 2019-2020, require the Agriculture sector to start to respond in the early days of New Year 2020.
Talking to news agencies on the last day of 2019 today (December 31), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong emphasized: The biggest challenge in 2020 of the Agriculture sector will be still a market problem.
| Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong discussed with the news agencies in the afternoon of December 31st. Photo: Tung Dinh |
Immediately after the Government assigned the target of export turnover in 2020 to reach from 41.5 to 42 billion USD, the Agriculture sector has also clearly defined specific targets for the coming year.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has quickly assigned the units, as well as coordinated well with localities and economic sectors to strive to achieve an export turnover of at least 42 billion USD or more.
This is a difficult target, especially in the current global picture that is fiercely competitive in the agricultural market, but with the highest determination of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as the participation of the whole system. Politics, economic sectors and people, the whole sector will try their best to ensure the maximum number of export turnover under the allowable conditions.
Regarding the breakthroughs that the industry is aiming for in the period of 2020-2025, in the immediate future is 2020, the Minister assessed that 2020 will continue to be the year that the Agriculture sector will face many great challenges and challenges.
The impact of climate change has been and has been existing since the early days of 2020, according to which the Agriculture sector has summarized the work in 2019, expeditiously implemented the work in 2020, especially in directing the agricultural production. Winter-Spring crop (DX) season 2019-2020 in the Northern provinces, responding to saline intrusion with an increasing tendency in the Mekong Delta provinces.
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| The Winter-Spring crop 2019-2020 in the Northern provinces will be a great challenge for agriculture in the early days of 2020. |
In the Northern provinces, for the immediate future, about 546 thousand hectares of DX crop of 11 RRD and Northern Midland provinces are facing many difficulties in irrigation water for the upcoming DX season. Accordingly, all three large reservoirs supplying water to the northern provinces of Son La, Lai Chau and Hoa Binh are short of water on average from 40 to 55%.
The same situation is forecast to occur in the central provinces. For the Mekong Delta provinces, the forecast is facing severe salt drought in 2020. This has been early warning by the Prime Minister from the third quarter of 2019. Accordingly, the forecast is not yet in any year, the Mekong Delta forecast will lack of upstream water sources up to 65%.
Regarding epidemics, African swine cholera, although it is in the bottom stage, however, the risks are still very high and not safe. The acacia epidemic in autumn 2019 has broken out in 14 provinces and is still at risk of re-outbreak in the near future …
Besides, the export market (export) of agricultural products in 2020 will still face many difficulties. One is that the global trade war makes all countries tend to return to investing in agriculture, developing agricultural products on the spot, creating pressure for exporting agricultural products, especially Vietnam. Big country exporting agricultural products.
| On the occasion of the New Year 2020, Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong sent to the people and farmers of the whole country wishing to keep their confidence and confidence in the achievements of 2019; firmly believe in the higher determination in 2020 to continue the harvest so that people can lead a prosperous life and a beautiful rural area.
The Minister also hoped that the whole society would continue to care and pay more attention to the agricultural sector to have a developed economy, including the agricultural pillar. |
According to NNVN
