Agriculture

Hanoi will focus on developing high-tech agriculture in order to raise its value of agricultural production to VND231 million per ha by 2015..

The State Bank of Viet Nam approved the addition of 19 projects to a pilot programme that offers preferential loans for agricultural development.

Officials from the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) Technical Committee gathered in Hanoi on September 15 to discuss issues related to agricultural and rural development.

International partners have pledged to assist Vietnam in restructuring its agricultural sector, following an action plan unveiled by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat in Hanoi on August 29, prioritising cultivation, animal husbandry and seafood.

Israel looks forward to assisting Hau Giang in applying high-technology in agriculture and cooperating with the Mekong Delta province in the fields of human resource development, education and training, and food processing.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on August 29 called for the support of international donors in creating a new momentum for rural development and restructuring the agricultural economy.

Ibaraki Governor Masaru Hashimoto affirmed Japan’s desire to expand scientific cooperation in agricultural with Vietnam at a welcoming reception on August 20 for a visiting Vietnamese delegation.

Massive quantities of Chinese agricultural products are routinely smuggled into the Vietnamese market, despite repeated warnings of pesticide residues.

A workshop aimed at promoting technical cooperation in agriculture and environmental protection between Can Tho city and Hiroshima prefecture, Japan was held on July 16.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Israeli Embassy in Hanoi will jointly launch the Vietnam-Israel Commercial Committee on July 14.

Businesses have signed contracts for the export of 4.7 million tonnes of rice at US$10-15 per tonne, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The country’s imports of corn in the first six months of the year exploded to 2.33 million tonnes valued at roughly US$600 million, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported.

A conference discussing measures to promote forestry-agriculture links between the capital cities of Vietnam and Laos was held in Hanoi on June 30.

Vietnam Business Centre in the Netherland, under which the two Dutch partners will conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a hi-tech agriculture centre in the province. This project has already been approved by the Dutch Ministry of Economy.

Vietnam has great potential for developing agriculture, said Japan’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hayashi Yoshimasa at the first Vietnam-Japan high-level dialogue on agricultural cooperation in Hanoi on June 26.

Japan will help Vietnam successfully set up value chains for farm produce and food via dialogues on agricultural cooperation

Viet Nam has signed a contract to export 200,000 tonnes of rice to Malaysia, which is expected to support domestic rice prices.

The Agriculture Ministry of the Netherlands hopes to continue its cooperation with Vietnamese businesses and research institutes to jointly create a supply chain and value for Vietnam’s agricultural products.

The organisation aims to deal with food shortages caused by natural disasters or man-made calamities through the provision of food assistance and nutrition improvement programmes to people in need.

The World Bank (WB) has agreed to provide preferential loans totaling US$150 million to bolster rice production in the Mekong River Delta (MRD).