In 2024, Vietnam's agricultural sector will achieve a GDP growth rate of 3.3%. The industry's trade surplus will set a new record, reaching 17.9 billion USD, up 46.8% compared to 2023 and accounting for 71.6% of the country's trade surplus. Overcoming difficulties and challenges from natural disasters, markets, and climate change, the agricultural sector will both firmly ensure national food security and strongly and deeply integrate into the international community.
2025 is the final year of acceleration and breakthrough to the finish line of the 5-year Industry Development Plan 2021-2025 and the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. The agricultural sector sets a growth target of 3.4%, while promoting restructuring the sector towards developing ecological, green, and circular agriculture associated with building modern new rural areas.
Achievement in hardship
In 2024, storm No. 3 (Yagi) caused total damage of VND83,746 billion, of which the agricultural sector alone suffered about VND31,800 billion, reducing the growth of the entire sector by 0.3-0.5 percentage points. However, the agricultural sector quickly overcame the consequences, restored production, and ensured growth in all sectors.
Accordingly, the cultivation sector increased by about 1.8%, with the annual rice output reaching nearly 43.7 million tons, up 0.4%; productivity reaching 61.4 quintals/ha, up 0.3 quintals/ha (up 0.5%), meeting the demand for domestic consumption, processing, animal feed and exporting about 9 million tons of rice. Industrial crops and key fruit trees such as durian reached 1.45 million tons, up 21.2%; dragon fruit reached 1.35 million tons, up 13.3%; rubber reached nearly 1.37 million tons, up 7.5%...
In the livestock sector, the output of fresh meat of all kinds is estimated at 8.1 million tons, up 3.5% compared to 2023; fresh milk output is 1.2 million tons, up 2.1%; industrial animal feed output is 21.5 million tons, up 3.4%. Aquaculture production has developed steadily thanks to favorable weather for both farming and exploitation with a total output estimated at 9.6 million tons, up 2.4%; of which exploitation is 3.86 million tons, up 0.6% and farming is 5.75 million tons, up 3.7%.
The agricultural sector has created positive and unified changes from the central to local levels in transforming agricultural production thinking into agricultural economics, increasing added value and quality of agricultural products.
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Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said: The agricultural sector has created positive changes, with unity from the central to local levels in transforming agricultural production thinking to agricultural economics, increasing added value and quality of agricultural products.
Accordingly, by 2024, about 116,000 hectares of ineffective rice land will be converted to grow other crops and aquaculture for higher value. The industry has successfully applied the crop spreading process with higher efficiency, 1.5 to 2 times higher with the total crop spreading area of 5 types of trees (dragon fruit, mango, rambutan, longan, durian) in the Mekong Delta and Binh Thuan provinces reaching 127.6 thousand hectares, the total crop spreading output reaching 1,287.3 thousand tons, accounting for 56.4% of the total output. Many ecological, green, organic agricultural models with economic efficiency have been developed; the number of agricultural enterprises and cooperatives has increased.
Gradually change from brown agriculture to green agriculture, increase the application of organic agricultural production processes, reduce resource and input intensity. Notably, the industry has effectively implemented the Project on Sustainable Development of 1 million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030.
In addition, with the approval and implementation of Projects to promote the export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products to major markets such as the US, China, Japan and the EU, the combination of implementing solutions to open new markets with great potential and negotiating and signing new orders in 2024 effectively brought the total export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products to a new record of 62.5 billion USD, an increase of 18.7% compared to 2023.
Creating new development space and growth drivers
According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, in 2025, the entire sector will be determined to ensure domestic food security and boost exports, so that agriculture continues to be a solid "pillar" for the economy.
Accordingly, it is necessary to create development space and new growth drivers for the industry on the basis of continuing to promote industry restructuring, improving productivity, quality of agricultural products and production and business efficiency; striving to exceed the highest growth target; strongly developing the domestic and export markets for agricultural, forestry and fishery products.
Building value chains for each type of agricultural product, associated with developing agricultural and rural logistics infrastructure, ensuring domestic and export supply chains.
Building value chains for each type of agricultural product, associated with the development of agricultural and rural logistics infrastructure, ensuring domestic and export supply chains. At the same time, innovating and developing forms of production and business organization in agriculture, forms of cooperation, linking production and consumption of agricultural products according to the value chain, connecting the global consumption system.
Promote research, transfer and application of science and technology, especially high technology and clean technology, in production; pay attention to developing and improving the quality of human resources in the agricultural sector.
Regarding issues of opening markets, increasing exports, and making good use of opportunities from free trade agreements for agricultural products, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Hang said that in bilateral and multilateral foreign relations, agriculture is one of the leading strengths for Vietnam to enhance its role and position, contribute responsibility to global issues, and is always Vietnam's pride in growth and development.
However, in 2025, agriculture will be one of the first industries to be affected in the context of complex and unpredictable developments in the world situation, new trends in trade protection, green transformation, digital transformation, etc., requiring the industry to continue to promote market diversification, have specific plans to bring products to potential markets such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, etc., with special attention to creating breakthroughs in trade promotion in the Halal market.
In 2025, agricultural diplomacy will be an issue of interest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with ministries and branches to promote agricultural production and export.
With the achievements in 2024 and over the past time, our country's agricultural sector is taking steady steps, ready for a period of acceleration and breakthrough growth.
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