Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc: Strengthening clean agricultural production
(Baonghean.vn) - That was one of the instructions of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the National Online Conference to summarize 2018 and deploy the 2019 plan of the Agriculture and Rural Development sector held on the morning of January 3, in Hanoi.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended, chaired and directed the conference; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong also chaired the conference. At Nghe An, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dinh Viet Hong chaired.
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| Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired the online conference to review the agricultural sector. Photo: Internet |
In 2018, the agriculture and rural development sector nationwide achieved high and comprehensive results, creating a clearer and more substantial change in 3 strategic breakthroughs, restructuring the sector associated with growth model innovation and new rural construction.
The main aggregate indicators all exceeded the annual plan and were higher than the previous year: GDP of agriculture, forestry and fishery increased by 3.76%, the highest in the past 7 years; production value increased by 3.86%; forest coverage rate reached 41.65%.This is a very high figure compared to the world average of only 29%. Agricultural, forestry and fishery exports reached 40.02 billion USD.
Nationwide, 42.4% of communes and 61 districts completed new rural construction, exceeding the target assigned by the Government to the sector in 2018. The agriculture and rural development sector contributed 8.7% to the overall growth of the economy in 2018.
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| Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dinh Viet Hong and leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development chaired at the Nghe An bridge. Photo: Phu Huong |
In Nghe An,In 2018, all 27/27 basic targets on agricultural and rural development production were completed, exceeding the plan. The economic growth rate of GTSX was estimated at 5.09%; The production structure changed strongly, all production sectors achieved good results; 30 communes and 3 district-level units met the NTM standards.Forest cover reached over 57.7%...
In 2018, Nghe An Agriculture and Rural Development Department was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Prime Minister for restructuring the agricultural sector; the Provincial Party Committee awarded a Certificate of Merit for summarizing 10 years of implementing Resolution 7 of the 10th Central Committee on agriculture, farmers and rural areas. In 2019, Nghe An continued to focus on restructuring the agricultural sector with solutions to increase productivity, quality and value of agricultural products, ensuring sustainable development.
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc acknowledged and highly appreciated the results achieved by the agriculture and rural development sector in 2018. The Prime Minister stated that these results have affirmed the real effectiveness of the transformation and restructuring of the sector, especially in the fields of agriculture and aquaculture. Most noticeably, the production structure has continued to be adjusted in the direction of shifting from quantity targets to quality and added value; shifting from small-scale, segmented production to large-scale, closed production according to the value chain, creating a concentrated, commodity agricultural production foundation, increasingly meeting the needs of the domestic market as well as export.
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| Farmers in Thanh Lien commune, Thanh Chuong district earn billions from Dien grapefruit trees. Photo: Phu Huong |
To achieve the set goals, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested the agriculture and rural development sector to develop a specific plan for the 2019 goals, thereby proposing reasonable solutions for implementation, especially solutions to remove current difficulties and "bottlenecks" such as: restructuring the sector has not been implemented evenly in localities, innovation and development of production forms have not met requirements, organizing production according to value chains is not popular...
The agriculture and rural development sector needs to continue to promote restructuring, improve productivity, quality of agricultural products and production and business efficiency, striving to achieve the highest growth target of the year. Strengthen strict management of fertilizers and pesticides; coordinate well with relevant ministries and sectors in performing tasks. Increase the linkage between farmers and enterprises; especially synchronously implement solutions to have a clean agricultural production to ensure people's health as well as target demanding export markets, increase the production value of the agricultural sector. Rural development focuses on implementing the national target program on building new rural areas.
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| Clean agricultural production is an inevitable requirement today. Photo: Internet |
