A series of recommendations to solve difficulties and shortcomings in agricultural commodity production

On the morning of April 3, at the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, under the chairmanship of comrade Ly Binh Minh, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Council held a thematic supervision session on the implementation of Resolution 10-NQ/TU dated August 26, 2021 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on the Strategy for developing agricultural commodities in Lao Cai province to 2030, with a vision to 2050 (Resolution No. 10).

At the monitoring session, a series of recommendations on resolving existing problems, difficulties and inadequacies in agricultural production in general and commodity production in particular were mentioned.

View of the working program.

Attending the conference were leaders of the Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Finance, Planning and Investment; and units under the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Representative of Department of Planning and Investment speaking.

According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development - the agency in charge of implementing Resolution No. 10, in 2023, the province's agricultural production value reached 9,098 billion VND; the income value/ha of cultivated land reached 95 million VND. Of which, the production value of key industries reached more than 4,560 billion VND, an increase of 360 billion VND, equal to 91% of the target by 2025; key industries include tea, medicinal herbs, bananas, pineapples, cinnamon, wood materials and commercial pigs.

The Department of Finance leader informed about the budget source for implementing Resolution No. 10.

Some specific solutions in implementing Resolution No. 10 have been and are being proactively deployed by the agriculture and rural development sector and other sectors. These include the management of planning and land use plans; application of science and technology in production; development of processing industry and consumption support services; building brands, area codes, quality standards; trade promotion, market expansion; training, improving the quality of human resources; investing in infrastructure; applying digital transformation in production...

Representatives of the Provincial People's Council committees expressed their opinions.

According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, some of the recent difficulties are natural disasters; the province's commodity production areas are still small in scale; conversion of crop varieties and application of advanced science in agricultural production are slow; the commodity consumption market is not stable, some products depend mainly on the Chinese market (bananas, cinnamon essential oil, forest product processing).

Delegates pointed out limitations in agricultural production.

The proposal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is that the province recommends that the Government soon issue a decree to replace and amend and supplement detailed regulations for the implementation of a number of articles of the Forestry Law, including detailed regulations on payment for services on forest carbon absorption and storage, and the purchase and sale of carbon credits; the Government soon issue a Protocol on quarantine for agricultural products and fruits of Vietnam when exporting to China to reduce time and costs for customs clearance. The province requests the Ministry of Industry and Trade to strengthen market forecasts, organize guidance on regulations, standards, and norms applicable to a number of industries, export and import goods, and issues related to the FTAs that Vietnam participates in.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development believes that the province needs to have a specific mechanism for poor districts and highland communes at risk of desertification, specifically considering increasing the support level for afforestation from 10 million VND to 30 million VND/ha. Support localities more in promoting investment and trade for key and potential products; promote administrative reform, remove difficulties in land, site clearance... implement projects to develop agricultural production and agricultural processing.

Some suggestions for solutions have been made.

Participating in the implementation of Resolution No. 10, leaders of functional sectors and committees under the Provincial People's Council pointed out a number of limitations and shortcomings, requesting the agriculture and rural development sector, related sectors, and localities to focus on clarifying and finding solutions to overcome them.

Specifically, such as difficulties in dissolving cooperatives, mainly operating in the field of agricultural production; removing difficulties for investment projects in the agricultural sector; recovering ineffective projects, failing to fulfill commitments, causing waste of land resources; unhealthy and transparent competition in raw material areas for commodity production; removing difficulties in using means of transporting agricultural and forestry products; resolving existing problems with rubber tree planting projects...

Representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development explained and clarified some opinions and recommendations of the industry.

All of the above issues were seriously discussed by the delegates, compiled by the Provincial People's Council, and used as a basis for recommendations for resolution and implementation in the coming time.

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