A site gathering newly-harvested rice in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang (Photo: VNA)The resolution, issued on March 25, stated thatensuring national food security is a long-term task and a special concern inthe Party and State’s development policies.
In more than ten years, from 2009 to 2019, ofimplementing the 10th-tenure Politburo’s Conclusion No 53-KL/TW on the nationalfood security plan until 2020, Vietnam has obtained significant achievements,notably firmly guaranteeing national food security in all circumstances, whichhave greatly contributed to economic, political, and social stability andnational development, especially amid global economic crises and the COVID-19pandemic, and helped supply food for the world.
According to the new resolution, national foodsecurity is an important issue of the country in both short and long terms. Themaintenance of rice farming land is necessary for keeping national foodsecurity but rice farmers’ livelihoods and income must also be secured.Besides, food security must be associated with water resources security,environmental protection, climate change adaptation, and sustainabledevelopment.
Resources must be prioritised for the research,application, and transfer of science and technology to diversify food productsto ensure nutritional balance and food safety in people’s diet, the resolutionnoted.
It also emphasised the importance of ensuringfood supply, people’s food accessibility, nutritional demand to be met, andfood safety.
Certain tasks and solutions were also pointedout in the resolution, including restructuring and aligning food productionwith the market; developing infrastructure for food production; stepping up theresearch, application, and transfer of science – technology in food production,preservation, and processing; improving human resources; and reformingmechanisms and policies on ensuring national food security./.
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