Agriculture sees annual growth of 3.8 percent

The agriculture sector is striving to reach an annual GDP growth rate of 3.5-3.8 percent during the 2010-2015 period.

At the sector’s patriotic emulation conference in Hanoi on August 24, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Diep Kinh Tan, said that the sector should focus on building a modern and sustainable agricultural sector which is capable of producing high quality and competitive commodities in large volumes, while ensuring the nation’s food security.

The sector plans to achieve an annual production growth of 4-4.5 percent and an increase in export turnover of 6.5-7 percent to US$21 billion per year. It strives to increase forest coverage to 43 percent, realise a seed crop output of 47 million tonnes, including 40 million tonnes of rice, and an annual seafood output of 4 million tonnes. Farmers per-capita incomes are also expected to reach VND20 million per annum.

According to the deputy minister, agriculture is the economic sector to suffer the most from climate change, disasters, epidemics and international competition, while the amount of useable land and number of workers are diminishing.

To reach this target, Tan said that the sector has put forward a number of solutions on science and technology, marketing, human resources development and investments in technical infrastructure and production. – VOV

Tags: Vietnam agriculture

Posted by VBN on Aug 27 2010. Filed under Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry