Create new impetus for agriculture

Directly affected by climate change as well as the price of "input" materials for production increased sharply, but in the first 6 months of 2022, agricultural production has achieved many positive results, ensuring a safe environment, supply of agricultural products for domestic and export markets. The problem now is to reduce production "input" costs, creating a new driving force to promote agricultural economic development.

Caring for vegetables at Phu Cuong Organic Vegetable Cooperative (Soc Son district). Photo: Do Tam

Growth reached 2.8%

According to the Director of the Planning Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Nguyen Van Viet, at the beginning of 2022, the weather is quite severe, directly affecting the cultivation field; the price of agricultural materials, gasoline, etc. increased sharply, affecting all production and business activities. However, the growth rate of the Agriculture sector in the first 6 months of 2022 still reached 2.8%; ensure a stable supply of food and foodstuffs for the market.

In this regard, Director of the Crop Production Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Nguyen Nhu Cuong informed that the whole country had planted 5.2 million hectares of rice, an increase of 2% over the same period in 2021, the yield reached 65.1 quintals/ha, the output is about 23.17 million tons, meeting the demand for domestic consumption and export. Major fruit trees such as mango, grapefruit, pineapple, litchi, longan, banana... all increased in both area and output.

According to Acting Director of the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Nguyen Van Long, the livestock industry has implemented many measures to control and prevent diseases, develop livestock in the direction of biosecurity. From the strengthening of quality control of breeding stock, livestock and poultry herds have been maintained and developed; total meat production of all kinds reached 3.4 million tons. In particular, Vietnam has successfully produced the African swine fever vaccine, contributing to disease prevention and control, ensuring production.

Commenting on the results of fishing and aquaculture, the Director General of the Directorate of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Tran Dinh Luan said: Although the high price of gasoline affects fishing, the weather at sea Relatively favorable conditions and incentives from the effective implementation of free trade agreements... have created the impetus to bring the total fishery output in the first 6 months of 2022 up to 4.2 million tons, up 2.5%. compared to the same period in 2021. In particular, the aquaculture sector increased strongly with 7.4%.

In the first 6 months of 2022, Hanoi's agriculture grew by 2.39% over the same period last year. Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Chu Phu My said that along with boosting production, the Capital's Agriculture sector has effectively implemented preliminary processing, processing and trade promotion activities, thereby contributing to promoting promote new rural construction, raise people's income.

Reduce production "input" costs

The production results in the first 6 months of 2022 are very remarkable, but according to the Director of the Planning Department (MARD) Nguyen Van Viet, the concretization and implementation of policies to support production and business, Linking production with consumption of safe agricultural products in some localities is still slow. On the other hand, "input" raw materials such as the price of animal feed, fertilizer, etc. have increased, while the price of agricultural products has increased but remained at a low level, significantly affecting income and livelihoods. Farmer's life design...

However, the reality shows that the domestic economy is in the process of recovering, the growth forecast is quite optimistic. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development sets a growth rate target of 2.8-3% in 2022; total export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products reached 55 billion USD, higher than the Government's allocation of 5 billion USD.

To achieve this goal, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will coordinate with localities to renovate production and business organizations from investment, research, selection and breeding to building material areas to achieve this goal. standards, forming large-scale production areas; at the same time, promote the application of science and technology to develop clean and high-quality agricultural products to meet the needs of domestic consumption and export. On the other hand, it is step by step self-sufficient in supply, reducing imports so as not to depend too much on the world market, contributing to stabilizing and reducing "input" costs for production.

Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Chu Phu My said that, along with solutions for each field (crops, livestock, fisheries, etc.), the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade to deploy conservation plans. ensure the supply of raw materials for production, thereby helping Hanoi's Agriculture industry develop stronger in the last 6 months of 2022.

From a business perspective, General Director of Bao Minh Agricultural Products Processing Joint Stock Company, Bui Thi Hanh Hieu, informed that in the coming time, the company will continue to invest in expanding production and business activities, associating chain, building brands to promote domestic product consumption and export...

According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, the agriculture sector is in the transition from agricultural production to agricultural economy. The increase in value, reduce costs is not to cope with the situation of "input" material prices rising, but to switch to an agricultural economy, to reduce "input" costs in any context. . Only in this way will the agricultural sector develop stably, ensure food security, promote exports, and bring high economic value to farmers.