The policies have made important contributions to improving people’s lives and rural areas more civilised and modern.
Bringing Resolution to life
Director of Hung Yen Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Do Minh Tuan said, that after a half tenure of implementing the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, agriculture and rural areas in Hung Yen continue to have much new prosperity in all fields including cultivation, animal husbandry, fisheries, mechanisation, cooperative economy, rural development, product consumption promotion, food safety and hygiene, disease safety and advanced and exemplary new rural areas. The set targets and tasks were completed and many of them exceeded the goals of the Resolution.
Implementing the Resolution of the 19th Hung Yen Provincial Party Congress, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development advised the Provincial Party Committee and the People's Committee to issue a resolution and a plan for carrying out the agricultural restructuring programme in association with building advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas around the province, during 2021-2025 period, with orientation to 2030; as well as work with all levels and agencies to issue, review, adjust, supplement and continue to implement schemes, projects and plans on agriculture and rural areas.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has organised the transformation of the structure of varieties and plants; and boosted the application of standards in production such as VietGAP, GlobalGAP and traceability. The implementation of digital transformation has been linked with high-tech, clean, 4.0, smart, organic and circular agriculture. The department has paid great attention to enhancing livestock development under the scales of enterprises, cooperatives, farms, and concentrated animal husbandry using the Vietgap model, towards biosecurity. The formulation and implementation of projects on the development of biosafety livestock and Vietgap livestock have been promoted to ensure epidemic safety, food safety and environmental protection during the 2020-2025 period and orientation to 2030. The support to the mechanisation, cooperatives, cooperative groups, farms, OCOP product certification, food safety, product consumption promotion, rural environmental protection, the building of advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas, investment attraction and land accumulation, has created positive changes in agriculture and rural areas.
The cultivation industry has been continuing to shift strongly to high-quality production. Up to now, Hung Yen Province has more than 3,700 hectares of vegetables, tubers and fruits under VietGap and organic production process, as well as more than 19,000 hectares of low-efficiency crops converted to perennial and annual crops, in combination with husbandry and aquaculture with high efficiency, contributing to rapidly increasing the area of many crops with high-income value including longan (5,000 hectares), lychee (over 1,100), citrus trees (more than 4,600 hectares), and high-quality commodity rice, reaching more than 70% of the rice cultivation area. The production value per hectare of cultivation reached 230 million VND in 2022.
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Many farmers in Hung Yen Province grow pomelo to earn high income. |
The livestock industry thrived with a total herd of more than 487,000 pigs, more than 36,000 cattle and 9.4 million poultry, gradually switching to bio-secure farming and accounting for an increasing proportion of the agricultural economic structure. Which, the total scale of VietGAHP-certified livestock production was nearly 2.802 million heads of cattle and poultry. Aquaculture has gradually changed from small-scale farming of households to farming in cooperative groups and enterprises. The technologies of “farming river fish in still water ponds”, “river cage farming” and “aquaculture in semi-floating ponds”, with cultured species of high economic value, have been developed.
The production forms have been innovated to be more suitable and effective, with the rapid increase of newly established cooperatives. Up to now, Hung Yen province has 374 cooperatives and 416 cooperative groups. The “One Commune – One Product” (OCOP) programme has continued to be implemented effectively, with 199 OCOP products rated 3 stars or more. The household economy in rural areas has been developing according to the market mechanism and recorded an effective transformation. The large-scale production under the value chain with cooperation and linkage between farmers’ cooperatives and enterprises has been promoted in all production fields and spread to many localities around the province.
Rural development and the National Target Programme on building advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas have been accelerated. The tasks of poverty reduction, social security and political security in rural areas have achieved many important results and goals, especially in mobilising resources for investment in new-style rural area building. The total capital mobilised for the implementation of the National Target Programme on building new rural areas since 2021, reached 13.721 trillion VND, of which 85 billion VND from the central budget, 1.806 trillion VND from the provincial budget, 2.825 trillion VND from the districts’ budgets, 3.875 trillion VND from the communes’ budgets, 1.140 trillion VND from capital integrated under programmes and projects, 579 billion VND mobilised from enterprises, 597 billion VND mobilised from the people, and about 2.814 trillion VND from other resources.
The total capital mobilised for the implementation of the National Target Programme on building new rural areas since 2021, reached 13.721 trillion VND.
The attention from authorities at all levels and agencies on the implementation of the Resolution has created consensus and positive changes in both awareness and actions of the political system and society, as well as a driving force for the development of agricultural production and the building of advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas. As a result, the growth rate of agricultural and fishery production reached an average of 2.66% per year during the 2021-2022 period. The province has 98 communes recognised as advanced new-style rural areas, reaching 70.5% of the total number of communes, and 24 communes recognised as exemplary new-style rural areas, accounting for 17.3% of total communes. Per capita income in rural areas was 64.42 million VND per person in 2022, an increase of 14.42 million VND compared to 2020.
Continuing to build a highly efficient agriculture, associated with the building of new-style rural area
Despite positive changes, agricultural production in Hung Yen Province still faces many shortcomings, especially the limitation in the linkage between the production preservation, processing and consumption of products, according to the industry value chain, the application of scientific and technological advances in production, preservation and processing to improve the quality and value of products. The shifting of crop structure towards producing goods of high economic value has been fragmented in many places and the output for agricultural products has been difficult. The investment in infrastructure construction according to the requirements for comprehensive modern agriculture has been limited, especially infrastructure to meet high-tech production, clean water, and environmental sanitation. The preservation and processing technology has been based mainly on raw product consumption or small-scale and household manual processing. The management of agricultural materials’ quality and food hygiene and safety has still faced many shortcomings and limitations.
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A lychee market is held at Ecopark Urban Area, Van Giang District, Hung Yen Province. |
To build a highly efficient, fast and sustainable agriculture, associated with building advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas, Director of Hung Yen Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Do Minh Tuan said in the near future, Hung Yen province will continue to implement synchronously and effectively the tasks and solutions. In particular, the key solutions are the acceleration of the agricultural restructuring towards large-scale and safe commodity production; the application of high technology to create products with high productivity and quality, competitiveness and sustainable development; the rapid development of large-scale concentrated production areas; and the application of advanced and modern production processes associated with processing and preservation to improve product quality, lower costs, increase the competitiveness of goods, raise added value and promote sustainable development.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the application of science and technology in agriculture and rural development. Notably, research, testing and selection of plant varieties, and animal and aquatic breeds with high productivity, quality and economic efficiency should be selected. The models of high-tech agricultural production, organic agriculture, and circular agriculture will be promoted. The investment in the application of post-harvest technology to reduce post-harvest losses and increase the added value of products needs to be increased.
It is also essential to complete the mechanisms and policies and focus on mobilising all resources to develop agriculture towards large-scale concentrated commodity production. High-tech and organic agriculture should be developed in the planned regions. The relevant agencies need to give support to the promotion activities, market development, and technology transfer, as well as strengthen propaganda activities, agricultural training, transfer of technical advances and the improvement of investment resources, through ODA and FDI capital for investment in production and rural infrastructure construction. In addition, the province will actively select and apply the world's advanced technologies, especially those related to seed, automation, computerisation and post-harvest.
Hung Yen authorities and people will continue to implement the provincial new rural construction programme during the 2021-2025 period, focusing on programmes to develop agricultural production and infrastructure construction. Efforts will be made to improve the quality of emulation movements of building new-style rural areas and focus on handling hot spots of rural social order. The building of advanced and exemplary new-style rural areas will continue to be promoted as planned. The relevant agencies will also carry out social security policies in rural areas, and support poor and near-poverty households in production to escape poverty sustainably.
Hung Yen authorities and people will continue to implement the provincial new rural construction programme during the 2021-2025 period, focusing on programmes to develop agricultural production and infrastructure construction.
The leadership of the Party committees at all levels will be enhanced and the management role of the authorities at all levels and the strength of socio-political organisations in agriculture, farmers and rural areas will be consolidated. The quality of activities of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organisations in rural areas will be improved, towards serving the people, mobilising people to actively develop production and business and arouse the self-reliance of farmers and rural residents to enrich themselves and their families, contributing to making the rural areas more civilised and modern.
