The agriculture and rural development sector implements the 2023 Plan in favorable and difficult conditions, with mixed challenges. Amid that situation, the industry always receives close and regular attention and direction from the Party, the National Assembly, and the Government.
Party and State leaders pay great attention to agricultural development. In the photo: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits the booth at Ca Mau Shrimp Festival 2023. Photo: VNA.
The agriculture and rural development sector implements the 2023 Plan in favorable and difficult conditions, with mixed challenges. Amid that situation, the industry always receives close and regular attention and direction from the Party, the National Assembly, the Government, along with support from all levels, sectors and localities; the cooperation, overcoming difficulties, and creativity of the business community and farmers.
The entire industry is unified from awareness to action, organizing a strong transformation from production thinking to agricultural economic thinking; from single-sector development to multi-sector cooperation and development; promote multi-value integration in agricultural, forestry and fishery products; shifting from the agricultural supply chain to developing commodity chains.
With the motto “Solidarity, discipline, flexibility, innovation, and timely effectiveness”, the agriculture and rural development sector has synchronously and effectively implemented Resolutions, laws, and regulations. strategies, programs, projects, planning, and industry development plans.
The focus is on the Central Resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areas until 2030; Strategy for sustainable agricultural and rural development for the period 2021 – 2030; Plan to restructure the agricultural sector for the period 2021 – 2025 according to the orientation “Ecological agriculture, modern countryside, civilized farmers”.
Along with that, in 2023, a series of programs will be approved and issued such as: Strategy for Developing Science, Technology and Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2030, Vision 2050 ; National Strategy on drug resistance prevention and control for the period 2023 – 2030, vision 2050; Strategy for rural industry development until 2030, vision to 2045; Planning for natural disaster prevention and irrigation for the period 2021 – 2030, vision to 2050.
New guidelines and policies have created new strength and power for the agricultural sector and rural development, helping agriculture continue to be the pillar of the economy and 2023 is truly a breakthrough year for the entire sector to complete the Plan. 5 years period 2021 – 2025. At the same time, create development space and industry growth drivers in the following years.
The trade surplus in agriculture, forestry and fisheries in 2023 will reach a record level of 11 billion USD.
Thanks to the positive and unified change from the Central to local levels in converting agricultural production thinking to agricultural economics, improving added value, quality of agricultural products, and GDP growth rate of the entire industry. In 2023, it will reach a record level of 3.83% – the highest in recent years, with a record trade surplus of 11 billion USD, accounting for nearly 50% of the surplus of the whole economy.
A major contributor to export value is the fruit and vegetable industry, with a record figure of 5.6 billion USD, one and a half times higher than the previous record set in 2018 of 3.81 billion USD.
The national target program to build new rural areas continues to be paid attention and promoted, with the number of OCOP products by the end of December 2023 reaching more than 11,000, exceeding the target for the entire period of 2021 – 2025 of 10,000 products. Products.
Trade promotion and market opening to maintain and expand exports are clearly shown. Typically durian products. After more than a year of signing the protocol with China, durian has risen to become the number 1 exported fruit and vegetable product, with a turnover of more than 2 billion USD in 2023.
Also in the year, the bird’s nest industry, with export potential of many billions of dollars, was approved by China for official export. On November 16, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinated with relevant units to organize the ceremony to export the first batch of official bird’s nest.
It can be said that ensuring the quality, hygiene, and food safety of Vietnamese agricultural products has gradually approached world standards. That is clearly shown by the fact that the United States has opened its market for grapefruit, Japan allows the import of longans and macadamia nuts, and New Zealand agrees to license the export of green lemons.
Ceremony of exporting the first official batch of bird’s nest to the Chinese market.
Rice export turnover exceeded the threshold of 5 billion USD.
After 30 years of innovation, Vietnam has gone from being a country that had to import food to becoming a rice exporter in the top 3 in the world. Thanks to new varieties, quality, and technical advances, rice output last year reached 43.4 million tons, an increase of 1.7% compared to 2022 even though the area decreased by about 9,000 hectares.
Strengthening the work of estimating, forecasting, and promptly grasping market trends, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised the Prime Minister to issue and implement Directive No. 24/CT-TTg dated August 5, 2023 on firmly ensuring national food security and promoting sustainable rice production and export in the current period.
As a result, the rice industry took full advantage of the opportunity for rice export prices to peak, exceeding the threshold of 600 USD/ton, bringing the export turnover of this industry to exceed 5 billion USD, an increase of more than 36% over the same period last year. last.
Vietnamese rice continues to make a splash when it once again wins the championship position in the world delicious rice contest.
Signing ceremony to export African swine fever vaccine in Quang Ninh.
The entire agricultural sector implements mechanisms and policies to encourage and create conditions to research and apply science and technology to create high-quality agricultural products in 3 product axes, from seed production to farming. , Processing.
In particular, on July 24, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development licensed the African Swine Fever vaccine to be widely used in Vietnam. To date, the number of vaccines produced is about 4.5 million doses. 300,000 of these doses were exported to the Philippines.
Appreciating the quality of Vietnamese vaccines, on October 22, in Ha Long City (Quang Ninh), partners from many countries Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, India… signed a contract to purchase more vaccines. African Swine Fever.
The year 2023 marks an important milestone in the forestry sector when it successfully transfers 10.3 million tons of carbon emission reduction to the Carbon Partnership Fund in Forestry through the World Bank (WB), with a single application. price of 5 USD/ton of CO2 and earned 51.5 million USD, equivalent to 1,200 billion VND.
To date, the Vietnam Forest Protection and Development Fund has received the first payment from the WB of 41.2 million USD, and at the same time disbursed it to the provinces in the project area (North Central region) to continue. continue implementation.
Along with that, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued many projects towards green agriculture such as 1 million hectares specializing in high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta; Increase production and use of organic fertilizers and biological pesticides.
Circular No. 15/2023/TT-BNNPTNT was approved at the end of the year, also contributing to simplifying administrative procedures, creating the best conditions and motivation for production and business activities in agriculture.
Taking advantage of diplomatic leverage to promote agricultural, forestry and fishery trade with key markets such as China, the United States, the EU…, helping to further increase, in both quality and quantity, Vietnamese agricultural products in the supply chain Global
2023 is an exciting year in foreign affairs with effective high-level diplomatic activities.
In June, Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife paid a state visit to Vietnam. The visit is a strong start for the comprehensive strategic partnership established between the two countries from 2022.
In September, US President Joe Biden paid a state visit to Vietnam for 2 days. The most outstanding result of the visit is that the two countries officially upgraded to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, opening a new historical period of bilateral friendship and cooperation.
In mid-December, General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife paid a state visit to Vietnam for 2 days. On this occasion, the two sides signed a Joint Declaration of more than 8,000 words, breaking a record to date, which mentioned many areas including promoting trade and signing agricultural export protocols.
Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam at the Festival of Preserving and Developing Vietnamese Craft Villages.
In order to build a value chain for each type of agricultural product, associated with the development of agricultural and rural logistics infrastructure, ensuring the domestic market supply chain, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has promoted coordination with localities. The locality will organize many festivals in 2023.
In November, the Ministry coordinated with the Hanoi People’s Committee to organize the Festival for Preserving and Developing Vietnamese Craft Villages, attracting more than 300 display booths and the participation of about 100 artisans across the country.
In early December, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development continued to coordinate with the People’s Committee of Ca Mau province to organize the Shrimp Festival. Prominent in this series of activities is the exhibition and trade space for the shrimp industry and OCOP products, with about 400 participating booths.
Immediately afterwards, the Ministry coordinated with the People’s Committee of Hau Giang province to organize the International Festival of the rice industry. Within the framework of the program, 3 Vietnamese records: Exhibition space, installation of the longest rice road; Vietnam map model assembled from specialty rice varieties of the largest provinces and cities; Event of preparing the most rice cakes (200 dishes).
Also in the series of events in Hau Giang, 4 scientific conferences focusing on developing the rice industry were held, attracting more than 200 international delegates to pay attention and follow.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan at the 4th Global Food Conference.
At the end of April 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development jointly organized the 4th Global Food Conference. During the 4 days of the conference, there were 9 official meetings, 11 side meetings and 31 parallel meetings. method was organized.
With the theme “Together, transforming food systems to be healthy, sustainable, adaptive to climate change and inclusive in the context of new crises”, the conference was highly appreciated by more than 300 international delegates. about the preparation as well as the content of the meetings.
In October 2023, during the year as ASEAN Chairman on Natural Disaster Prevention, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development successfully organized the 11th ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Natural Disaster Prevention, taking place in Ha Long City (Quang Ninh).
Delegates from ASEAN countries and three partners China, Korea, and Japan attended, witnessed, and committed to closer cooperation in natural disaster prevention. In particular, the Ha Long Declaration on improving the ability to respond early to natural disasters was adopted.
Despite many efforts, the 3 National Sector Plans for the period 2021 – 2030, vision to 2050 on forestry, protection of aquatic resources and fishing ports have not been issued as planned. In addition, the targets on total export turnover, the rate of communes meeting new rural standards… have also not been completed.
Effective forms of production organization and association are not really stable. Linking along the value chain to promote mechanization and apply high technology to reduce intermediate costs and increase added value is not yet popular. Some hot spots for deforestation, illegal transportation and storage of forest products and fighting against people on duty, especially in the Northwest and Central Highlands provinces; Riverbank and coastal erosion continues to occur.
In 2023, Vietnam will welcome the 4th EC inspection delegation. However, the fisheries industry has not yet removed the “yellow card” for seafood fishing.
According to Nongnghiep.vn
