Prime Minister's special concern

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc spent his first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday returning to Ha Nam to press the button to start high-tech agricultural production.

Prime Minister visits high-tech agricultural model in Binh Phuoc.

Ha Nam is also the place where King Le Dai Hanh held the first Tich Dien ceremony more than a thousand years ago. The Prime Minister pressing the button to start high-tech agricultural production can be seen as a “Tich Dien ceremony” in the fourth industrial revolution, the era of global integration.

Speaking here, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that there is a solution to the problem of Vietnamese agriculture. On the Government side, it will promote the unbinding and creation of agricultural development towards organic agriculture, high technology, clean agriculture, and smart agriculture.

Solving this problem requires the participation of private enterprises and high-quality agricultural cooperatives. The State will encourage agricultural startups, improve mechanisms and policies, resolve institutional bottlenecks such as expanding agricultural land limits, more strongly consolidating land, and reporting to the National Assembly to amend the Land Law according to the recommendations of localities.

Regarding capital, more than a month ago, at the Conference on Building Vietnam's Agricultural Industry, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc decided to allocate a credit package of about 50-60 trillion VND for the development of high-tech agriculture with the most favorable and open lending mechanism. Now, the Prime Minister requested to increase this credit package from 60,000 billion VND to 100,000 billion VND.

It can be said that since taking office until now and especially recently, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has paid special attention to agricultural development, focusing on developing high-tech agriculture, clean agriculture, and organic agriculture.

Continuously attending events on the development of high-tech agriculture, the Prime Minister expressed his concerns and worries about the "bottlenecks" that have prevented Vietnamese agriculture from developing as it has potential and advantages, especially institutional "bottlenecks".

He requested to review and perfect policy mechanisms to create motivation for agricultural and rural development, especially regarding land and rice land planning towards abolishing institutions and policies that bind and hinder agricultural development.

“What is an institution? We created the institution but we are afraid of it. Institutions that constrain development must be abolished immediately. Don’t let those institutions force us to follow them and fear them unreasonably,” the Prime Minister said at the summary conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Prime Minister himself has visited many high-tech agricultural models in Binh Phuoc, Hai Phong, Ha Nam, etc. Even when working abroad, the Prime Minister also spends time on this, such as when visiting China, he visited the Bat Que Dien Vien High-tech Agricultural Zone - a highly efficient agricultural model in Guangxi.

The Prime Minister affirmed that the Government supports consultants, managers, cooperatives, and enterprises in any province that engage in high-tech agriculture. Not all localities that are planned in high-tech agricultural zones are allowed to invest in high-tech agriculture. Instead, it is necessary to ensure that all Vietnamese farmers, regardless of region, size, or nature, are encouraged to apply high technology to agricultural production.

In the first Government meeting of the new year of Dinh Dau, which is also the first meeting of 2017, taking place on February 3, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc continued to emphasize the need to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, remove difficulties, and promote the development of high-tech agriculture in terms of policies, capital sources, models, mechanisms, policies, etc. In the coming days, the Prime Minister will also chair a Government conference on developing high-quality shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta.

According to the Prime Minister, agriculture is one of the three competitive advantages, three breakthrough spearheads that Vietnam needs to focus on developing, along with the information technology and tourism industries. According to experts, developing high-tech agriculture, clean agriculture, and organic agriculture is a correct direction, very suitable for the circumstances and conditions of Vietnam. Agriculture is Vietnam's strength, that is indisputable. But in the context of international integration as it is today, as the Prime Minister said, it must be clean agriculture, high-tech agriculture to be competitive.

In response to the Prime Minister's call, recently, many businesses and large corporations have invested in agriculture, opening up a new direction, creating new momentum and new momentum in high-tech agricultural production, clean agriculture and organic agriculture. This is very encouraging. But what is more encouraging is that the vision and development strategy for this field have been determined and the business community is expecting that institutional "bottlenecks" will soon be removed, attracting a strong wave of investment, opening up a period of outstanding development for Vietnamese agriculture in the new era.

According to Ha Chinh

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