Young entrepreneurs need capital, but the most important thing is still aspiration.

Starting a business requires investment capital, but the most important thing is still the aspiration and creative will to find advantages and solve difficulties when starting a business.

Delegate Phan Thanh Sang shared at the Youth forum joining hands to build new rural areas.

On the afternoon of December 10, in Hanoi, Party Central Committee member, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong chaired the forum: Youth join hands to build new rural areas, also attended by Party Central Committee member, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh; Secretary of the Central Youth Union Nguyen Anh Tuan. The forum is within the framework of the 11th National Youth Union Congress, term 2017 - 2022 with the participation of 150 delegates.

In the agricultural sector, many products have the highest or second largest quantity in the world, but the nature of agriculture is still low labor productivity and economic productivity compared to the other two economic sectors, so the economic efficiency to the people is low and income is not high.

Agriculture is based on small-scale households. Vietnam has about 10 million farming households and 77 million fragmented fields of land, making it very difficult to move towards modern production, with high production costs and quality management.

Vietnam’s agriculture is integrating internationally, the advantage is opening the market but there are also many foreign goods coming in so the initial competition is very fierce. “Just in 2014-2015, there were years when there were 350,000 cows while the herd was only 5 million, which was a huge pressure,” said Mr. Cuong.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that young people are an important core force, both the subject and participant in restructuring agriculture and building new rural areas. “Young people should pay attention to agriculture and rural areas,” Mr. Cuong encouraged.

The first person to share at the forum, Mr. Phan Thanh Sang (Lam Dong Provincial Youth Union delegate), said that he started his business when he was still a student with an orchid growing model. Up to now, Mr. Sang has opened a flower farm in Ninh Thuan, a place where many people always think it is difficult to grow flowers.

Through practical experience, delegate Sang said that traditional agriculture is the country first, fertilizer second, diligence third, and breed fourth. But in today's agriculture, breeds must be the most important. When there are new and good breeds, there is a competitive advantage. Vietnam is an agricultural country, but the Vietnamese breed industry is still weak, lagging behind many developed countries when they have many breed corporations for hundreds of years. "The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development needs to pay special attention to breeds and the current regulation that it takes 3-5 years to import breeds is a barrier to the development of the agricultural breed industry in Vietnam," delegate Sang suggested.

Agreeing with this opinion, Mr. Cuong said that many types of agricultural seeds are an issue that needs to be focused on improving strongly, when currently many types of vegetable and fruit seeds still have to be imported individually. Regarding the regulations on seed import, in the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will study to eliminate the regulations that are barriers to this industry.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong encourages young people to start a business in agriculture.

Delegate Vuong Manh Phu, Secretary of Bat Xat District Youth Union, Lao Cai Province, raised the issue at the forum that in mountainous areas, young people can only start a business in agriculture, but mountainous areas have difficulties in land for production and lack of capital for investment. "In the coming time, how will the agricultural sector support young people to start a business in agriculture?", Delegate Phu asked.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that since the Lao Cai expressway was built, there have been many advantages. The road to Hanoi has become more convenient, especially adjacent to China, a large market for agricultural products.

Young people can start a business with production models, cooperatives, and businesses in agriculture. Regardless of where, what land or region, there are advantages and disadvantages, the problem is that young people must find and exploit the advantages. “For young people to start a business, capital is the first thing, where is the money because everything needs money. But capital is not everything, but more importantly is the aspiration of youth, creative ideas, science and technology... If there is aspiration, young people will find advantages and solutions to solve difficulties when starting a business”, said Mr. Cuong.

According to thanhnien.vn