Department agriculture forestry and fisheries

Cultivation falls, breeding increases According to the General Statistics Office, gross domestic product (GDP) growth in agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the first half of this year reached 2.36 percent, a drop of 0.54 percent compared to a year ago. Cultivation recorded the lowest growth of 1.08 percent, while forestry and livestock breeding achieved higher growth compared to the same period last year. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Directorate of Water Resources Deputy General Director Nguyen Van Tinh said that the cultivation sector has been seriously affected by extreme weather conditions such as warm weather in the winter in the north and drought in the central region and the Central Highlands. According to estimates, the country’s rice growing area reached 3.11 million ha, a drop of 4,300 ha compared to 2014. In contrast to the difficulties experienced by the cultivation sector, the livestock sector has seen positive signs. … [Read more...] about Agriculture regains growth momentum

The gross domestic product of the agriculture, forestry and fishery sector in the first six months of this year decreased by 0.18 percent compared with the same period last year, and its production value reached an estimated VND397.4 trillion, down 0.1 percent (the agricultural production value reached VND297.2 trillion, down 0.7 percent, with cultivation showing a three-percent decline), according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The MARD’s Planning Department Director Nguyen Thi Hong attributed this decline to decreases in the cultivated area and output of a variety of crops such as rice, maize, potato, soybean, and sugarcane. According to leaders of the MARD, the growth was held back by unfavorable weather conditions and natural disasters, including damaging cold, droughts, salinity intrusion, and environmental pollution causing mass fish deaths in the central region. Vietnam Rural Development Science Association Vice President Dao … [Read more...] about Suitable policy needed to accelerate agriculture

High agricultural growth In 2017, HCMC reached an agricultural, forestry and fishery production value of almost VND19.48 trillion, up 6.3 percent from the 2016 growth of 5.8 percent. Production value reached almost VND1.93 trillion in the first two months of 2018, up 6.5 percent from the same time in 2017. Of this, cultivation reached VND472 billion (up 5.7 percent), animal husbandry produced VND865 billion (up 4.3 percent), and fisheries reached VND468 billion (up 10.2 percent). High technology has been applied in vegetable and fruit production on 389.8 hectares of land in the city, nearly quadruple that in 2016 (101ha). Interest-based assistance According to the HCMC Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the city is home to 1,200 agricultural enterprises with an average capital of VND27.6 billion, VND9 billion lower than the city’s average. City-based agricultural enterprises have contributed 14.7 percent to the city’s agricultural production value. The HCMC … [Read more...] about HCMC to pay interest on agriculture production loans