Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has recently signeda decision approving the Organic Agriculture Development Project for 2020-2030with a hope of becoming one of countries with advance organic agricultureproduction.
Specifically, by 2025, the area of organicagricultural land will reach about 1.5-2 percent of the total agricultural landarea. The area of organic farming land will account for over 1 percent ofthe total land cultivated with major crops such as rice, vegetables, fruits,tea, pepper, coffee, cashew and coconut.
The percentage of organic livestock products is expected to reach about 1-2percent of the total domestic livestock products. Meanwhile, organicaquaculture will account for about 0.5 – 1.5 percent of the total aquaculturearea.
The project also targets improving theefficiency of organic production with the product value per one hectare oforganic cultivation and aquaculture land 1.3-1.5 times higher than that of non-organicproduction.
Main tasks set under the project are todevelop concentrated organic agricultural production regions, diversify formsof organic production, intensify technology application, develop certificationorganisations, and increase the processing, consumption and export of organicproducts./.