Từ khóa: #agriculture

Gone are the days when farmers had to toil under the burning heat. Now in the Mekong Delta, they are entering Industry 4.0 with effective implementation of technology to increase yields and create new brand names for their produce.

Agriculture has affirmed its role as an important pillar of the economy, helping build an independent and self-reliant economy with active, intensive, and effective integration into the world and bring a prosperous and happy life to people.

According to experts, farmers have been facing many risks because they have to depend a lot on imported raw materials, leading to continuously rising prices and costs.

A ceremony honoring 300 farmers for their significant achievements in the 2017-2022 period was held in Hanoi on September 13 by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Association.

Vietnam aims at a minimum of 60 percent of synchronous mechanization in crop cultivation, livestock production, and aquaculture by 2030 so that it can be in the global top-10 produce processing centers. This is the conclusion stated by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam in yesterday’s conference ‘Synchronous Mechanization for Sustainable Agriculture’, held in Can Tho City.

A video conference has been held between the Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (IDEA)’s Centre of Information and Digital Technology (CID) and global payment technology company VISA to discuss cashless payment solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Several farmers proposed to borrow money as unsecured loans instead of secured loans and interest rate needs to be approved monthly instead of quarterly as currently at the dialogue with the Ho Chi Minh City government, themed ‘Policy to support the restructuring of agricultural economics: reality and solutions’, held by the People’s Council of HCMC in association with the Voice of HCMC’s People on November 30.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam is among top agro-forestry-aquatic product and food exporters in the world with export turnover growth of around 8-10 percent annually but raw material export still accounts for a large proportion.

The departments of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mekong Delta provinces warned that farmers should be cautious about abandoning rice, sugarcane and other crops to massively shift to grow Thai variety jackfruit trees as the price of Thai jackfruit is usually volatile. 

More than 70 percent of the Vietnamese population is working in the agricultural sector, yet they contribute only around 20 percent of the GDP. Therefore, to raise the revenue of this mass sector, beside taking full advantage of the integration process, new technologies must be applied more widely in the whole nation.

Urbanization has gradually increased its pressure on agriculture land of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) year by year. Yet thanks to the application of advanced technologies, especially biotechnology, into crop growing and harvesting, agricultural performance witnessed an impressive rise.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has advised the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to capitalize on its strengths in agriculture, tourism, and mining for its future overall development. 

The 3^rd national scientific conference on ‘Atomic Energy Utilization for the Socio-Economic Development’ was held yesterday in Hanoi by the Vietnam Atomic Energy Agency under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

 

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has called on the municipal authorities to make agriculture one of the city’s seven key economic pillars.