Socialization of agricultural development resources

Seafood highlight

Presented at the Conference to review the work of the first 6 months of the year and implement the work tasks for the last 6 months of 2022 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on June 28, the Director of the Planning Department Nguyen Van Viet pointed out three major challenges of the time. past time are: weather; input material prices increase; production indexes in the same period of 2021 are very high. In which, especially the export of agricultural and forestry products grew by 15.8%; group of aquatic products increased by 12.4% over the same period in 2020.

Despite these difficulties, the agricultural sector still maintained its growth momentum as production value increased by 2.8%, contributing to ensuring food security in all situations. Many areas have achieved achievements such as announcing the successful production of commercial vaccines against African swine fever; exports reached 27.88 billion USD, the industry surplus doubled over the same period.

Contributing significantly to achieving the dual goals of import and export is the seafood industry. In the first 6 months of the year, seafood exports were 5.8 billion USD, up 40.8% over the same period. In the context of high gasoline prices, many countries around the world increasing protection, logistics costs are increased many times, and many supply chains are broken, the increase of seafood is reported by Director General Nguyen Van Viet. considered "encouraging".

Sharing more about this achievement, Director General of the General Department of Fisheries Tran Dinh Luan commented that forecasting and forecasting work has always been interested and implemented by the industry early. Right from the meetings at the end of 2021, the Directorate of Fisheries coordinated with VASEP, branches and localities to analyze and evaluate in detail the market supply and demand, in order to reserve output and soon implement plans plan to welcome in 2022.

"Within 6 months, the fisheries sector organized 9 conferences for many industries such as shrimp, pangasius, molluscs. With the attention of the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, we worked closely and directly. to each locality to make sure the production situation," Mr. Luan said.

Discussing the work of the last 6 months of the year, Director General Tran Dinh Luan said that the seafood industry will face many challenges in terms of the environment, the price of input materials, as well as the shortage of export materials. 

Another issue highlighted by the head of the fisheries sector is the prevention of IUU, as well as the removal of the EC's yellow card. Mr. Luan said that in September 2022, the European Commission (EC) will send a delegation to inspect the field. Therefore, the General Department and 28 coastal provinces and cities need to have good coordination to end the situation of illegal or unreported fishing.

"Through discussions with the EC, your side highly appreciates Vietnam's control efforts. The Europeans have noted that the number of violations has decreased significantly. This is the basis for us to move towards stricter management. the issue of traceability of exploited seafood," said Mr. Luan.

Agreeing with the opinion of Director General Tran Dinh Luan, Chief of Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Van Thanh said that heads of units under the Ministry need to actively implement the Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development. , creating space for development in the last 6 months and the following years. Mr. Thanh said that the direction should be implemented comprehensively, from seasonal production, inspection of food hygiene and safety, as well as internal issues of each field.

It is recommended that Departments, Departments and units under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development review growth scenarios to organize production, in the context that input materials are still at a high level, Chief of Office Le Van Thanh emphasized the weak point of view. "creative" element. Currently, many localities such as Bac Giang, Hai Duong... have linked agriculture with tourism development, creating more value for people.

Carefully disburse public investment capital and OCOP products

In addition to the bright spots in the first 6 months of the year, the Director of the Planning Department Nguyen Van Viet also mentioned two shortcomings of the industry. Firstly, the disbursement rate of public investment capital in the first 6 months of the year reached 26%; about 10% lower than the same period in 2021.

The total capital plan for 2022 assigned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is VND 6,438 billion; in which, domestic capital (including government bond capital) is 4,538 billion VND, ODA capital is 1,900 billion VND. According to Mr. Viet, the disbursement speed of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is currently ranked 10th in the country, and it is necessary to speed up this issue, in order to ensure the speed of economic recovery in the spirit of Directive 26 issued by the Prime Minister.

Second, the number of OCOP products increased by about 2,000 products, from 5,496 to 7,463, in just half a year. However, the number of additional products are mainly 3 stars and 4 stars - which are under the recognition authority of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities. In contrast, the number of 5-star products - assessed by the Central Committee - hardly increased, and remained at about 20 products.

Chief of Office of the Central New Rural Coordination Office Ngo Truong Son affirmed that 2,000 OCOP products that have just been recognized in the past 6 months meet the criteria set by the Government. 

In order to strictly control and cross-validate the quality of OCOP products, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has planned to organize local inspection teams. The Ministry Inspector has made a report on this issue, preparing to submit it to the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, before sending a written urging to the locality and conducting a physical inspection. 

Regarding the implementation of the work in the last 6 months of the year, Director General Nguyen Van Viet noted two areas: irrigation and natural disaster prevention, because this is the period when rain, storms and floods often occur, which can affect the organization. production organization. Another point is that it is necessary to thoroughly solve the problem of congestion of agricultural products at the border gate, sometimes 5,000 - 6,000 vehicles, affecting farmers.

Additional comments, Director of the Department of Crop Production Nguyen Nhu Cuong reiterated the issue of seasonality. Because the winter-spring crop is 7-10 days behind normal, the crop is also delayed, affecting the progress of planting winter crops - the key crop in many northern provinces.

Mr. Cuong also mentioned difficulties in the direction of citrus consumption in the northern provinces. Currently, some localities have encountered diseases such as yellow leaves, root rot, yellow leaves and green veins... affecting the productivity and output of fruits such as oranges, tangerines, pomelos and lemons.

Leverage from science and technology

Concluding the conference, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan advised the entire agricultural sector to change approach in orientation, development and planning of each field.

Recalling the story of many farmers who cried with the Minister, the commander of the agricultural sector said that a large number of people still think that the change in production direction will be slower than the change of the market. That is also the reason that many models of circular agriculture and ecological agriculture have not been able to spread widely.

"Converting thinking to an agricultural economy is a process. There, we need to move the whole agriculture industry, and at the same time help people raise awareness in all aspects. For example, saving material costs. Investment in investment does not have to wait until the price of materials is high to propagate, but needs to be formed right in the mind, from the moment you start doing it", the Minister pondered.

Acknowledging that "every change is difficult, but if there is no change, it will be even more difficult", the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development highly appreciated the role of the head of state management agencies, enterprises and cooperatives. , even households. He believes that "the feelings of the leader will spread to the members". Therefore, instead of complaining, people need to accept the law of land, production, and agricultural productivity career will come to the ceiling. That is also the time, all need to find ways to integrate multi-values and find new values for the industry.

Recently, Minister Le Minh Hoan visited many institutes and schools, listened to students and researchers present about startup ideas. He highly appreciated those efforts, and directed the units of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to strengthen connectivity, promote innovation, apply more science and technology, digital transformation, and consider it a development lever of the whole industry.

"Scientific research must solve problems close to farmers, no matter how small. Now is the time for us to borrow from social resources, accompany industry associations, businesses, independent experts. setting up, consider them as partners for mutual development, creating development space; instead of being viewed as objects for management", the Minister emphasized.

This mindset, according to the agriculture sector chief, will benefit from more and more businesses willing to accompany and provide resources. It is also in line with the direction of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh when taking public investment to attract and lead investment, so that the state, the market and society develop together. 

4 core missions

Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep mentioned 4 key tasks that the agricultural sector needs to focus on in the last 6 months of 2022. First, focus on developing legal documents, including 6 Government Decrees, 1 Decision Decree of the Prime Minister, 15 Circulars of the Minister; 26 programs/projects, 44 National agricultural sector planning.

To handle this workload, Deputy Minister Hiep asked the units under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to strengthen coordination effectively, especially speeding up administrative procedures, institutions and policies. He also noted the improvement of the quality of local response documents, to avoid a lingering, protracted, unresolved problem.

Second, Deputy Minister Hiep proposed a plan to resolve concerns about the rapid increase in the number of OCOP products in the first 6 months of the year. According to the Deputy Minister, the number of products more or less is not as important as changing the approach. Instead of local rating the product (3 stars, 4 stars), or the central rating 5 stars, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development proposed for people, businesses, or third organizations to evaluate. for objectivity.

“We have talked a lot about transformation, product value enhancement, as well as farmer knowledge. However, the agricultural sector needs to evaluate based on reality. For example, the training does not necessarily go through the classroom, but can be from the daily work itself, or the mechanization of daily work, "said the Deputy Minister.

Third, is the issue of unit restructuring. Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep informed that the Ministry of Home Affairs had basically agreed with the new organization and arrangement. Now is the time for the Departments and Departments under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to actively complete new functions and tasks.

Fourth, is the issue of disbursement of public investment. Leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that this rate is 10% lower than the same period in the same period in general, because in 2022, many new projects and plans will be implemented.

Deputy Minister Hiep also denied the information, that the disbursement speed of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is slow as some reflect. He also pledged that by the end of 2022, the disbursement progress of public investment will reach 100% and ODA capital will reach 80%.