“It is a major issue, never before happened so brutally to our husbandry industry”, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said of the severe impact of the African swine fever that is killing millions of local pigs at the National Assembly meeting held yesterday.
Notable foreign enterprises in farming industry such as C.P, Cargill, Guyomarc'h were among 53 enterprises in Vietnam granted award titled 'the Business dedicated to Farmers' by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that to achieve this result, one of the issues that need to be addressed is Decree on the credit policy for agricultural and rural development No.55/2015/NĐ-CP dated June 9, 2015.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved the VND170 billion (roughly US$7.5 million) project to improve the quality of Vietnamese coffee to gain the higher position in the international arena.
On August 10, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) entered an agreement on the Project for Emergency reservoir operation and effective flood management using water related disaster management information system.
Vietnam’s National Target Programs (NTPs), which aims at reducing poverty of ethnic minorities in 18 provinces, has just been funded US$153 million from World Bank.
Vietnam risks a loss of 7.2 million tonnes of rice yield and 3.2 per cent of its agricultural land by the late 21st century as a result of climate change, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development forecast.
Demand for organic farm and other products has increased significantly both in Việt Nam and globally, and this is good news for businesses investing in the field, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
