Legislators raised issues regarding hydropower and forest preservation and development during the 10th sitting of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 3.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised farmers not to cultivate new pepper plants, transfer into other crops if the plants die of diseases and gradually reduce pepper area to 100,000 hectares.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong yesterday said that Vietnam’s seafood export value might reach US$500 million in the first month of 2018 at a ceremony of exporting the first seafood consignments this year.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong proposed the Prime Minister to supplement an aid of VND9 trillion ($397 million) for agricultural restructuring and natural disaster recovery at an online conference presided over by the PM in Hanoi this morning.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development presided over a conference discussing ways for Vietnam to uphold world’s top cashew exporter and obtain the export turnover of $3 billion by 2020.
Dealing with agricultural restructuring at the beginning of a three day question-and-answer session at the National Assembly, cabinet members conceded that the Government had not done enough to manage problems of supply and demand.