The GDP of agriculture, forestry and fisheries expanded by 3.76 percent in 2018, the highest in the past seven years (Illustrative photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – TheMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced the 10 mostoutstanding achievements of the sector in 2018.
1. The Gross Domestic Product of agriculture,forestry and fisheries expanded by 3.76 percent, the highest in the past sevenyears, despite disadvantaged weather conditions and unfavourable fluctuationsin the market.
2. Export revenue from agricultural,forestry and fishery products surpassed 40 billion USD, up 9.6 percent from2017 (the target assigned by the Government was 36-37 billion USD). This is thehighest ever export value of the sector.
3. The National Assembly passed the Law onCultivation and Law on Animal Husbandry. So far seven laws in the field ofagriculture and rural development have been promulgated, which are Law onCultivation (2018), Law on Animal Husbandry (2018), Law on Irrigation (2017),Law on Forestry (2017), Law on Fishery (2017), Law on Animal Health (2015), Lawon Plant Protection and Quarantine (2013).
4. A total of 2,200 new firms wereestablished in agriculture, up 12.3 percent from 2013, bringing the totalnumber of firms operating in the field to 9,235, the largest number ever. Thenumber of production chains reached 1,096, up 350 from 2017.
5. Half of business conditions (175 out of345) in the field were cut or simplified, while the number of farm productssubject to specialised inspection coded HS was reduced to 1,768 from theprevious 7,698 (over 77 percent). Thirteen administrative procedures are nowconnected to the National Single Window portal.
6. A total of 3,787 communes (42.4 percentof the total number) and 61 districts were recognised as meeting new-stylerural area criteria. Average income of rural household reached 130 million VND,up 1.71 times from 2017 and 3.5 times from 2008.
7. The exploitation of wood in naturalforest was ended, wood output from planted forests and scattered treesnationwide reached 27.5 million cubic metres, while forest coverage reached thehighest rate since 1975 at 41.65 percent.
8. Vietnam signed the Voluntary PartnershipAgreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and engaged in negotiations on harmonisationof regulations for the early removal of the EU’s yellow card on Illegal,Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
9. Vietnam successfully produced vaccine forfoot-and-mouth disease in cattle.
10. Damage caused by natural disasters waskept at low level, with fatalities dropping by 43 percent and material lossesequal to only 33 percent compared to 2017 figures. -VNA
1. The Gross Domestic Product of agriculture,forestry and fisheries expanded by 3.76 percent, the highest in the past sevenyears, despite disadvantaged weather conditions and unfavourable fluctuationsin the market.
2. Export revenue from agricultural,forestry and fishery products surpassed 40 billion USD, up 9.6 percent from2017 (the target assigned by the Government was 36-37 billion USD). This is thehighest ever export value of the sector.
3. The National Assembly passed the Law onCultivation and Law on Animal Husbandry. So far seven laws in the field ofagriculture and rural development have been promulgated, which are Law onCultivation (2018), Law on Animal Husbandry (2018), Law on Irrigation (2017),Law on Forestry (2017), Law on Fishery (2017), Law on Animal Health (2015), Lawon Plant Protection and Quarantine (2013).
4. A total of 2,200 new firms wereestablished in agriculture, up 12.3 percent from 2013, bringing the totalnumber of firms operating in the field to 9,235, the largest number ever. Thenumber of production chains reached 1,096, up 350 from 2017.
5. Half of business conditions (175 out of345) in the field were cut or simplified, while the number of farm productssubject to specialised inspection coded HS was reduced to 1,768 from theprevious 7,698 (over 77 percent). Thirteen administrative procedures are nowconnected to the National Single Window portal.
6. A total of 3,787 communes (42.4 percentof the total number) and 61 districts were recognised as meeting new-stylerural area criteria. Average income of rural household reached 130 million VND,up 1.71 times from 2017 and 3.5 times from 2008.
7. The exploitation of wood in naturalforest was ended, wood output from planted forests and scattered treesnationwide reached 27.5 million cubic metres, while forest coverage reached thehighest rate since 1975 at 41.65 percent.
8. Vietnam signed the Voluntary PartnershipAgreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and engaged in negotiations on harmonisationof regulations for the early removal of the EU’s yellow card on Illegal,Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
9. Vietnam successfully produced vaccine forfoot-and-mouth disease in cattle.
10. Damage caused by natural disasters waskept at low level, with fatalities dropping by 43 percent and material lossesequal to only 33 percent compared to 2017 figures. -VNA
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