Removing difficulties and bottlenecks, unlocking farmers' resources, successfully building ecological agriculture, modern countryside, and civilized farmers.
At the 6th Dialogue Conference with Farmers in 2024 with the theme: "Arousing the aspiration to get rich to build a prosperous and happy country; confidently entering a new era", Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh concluded the important groups of issues requiring ministries, agencies and localities to focus on solving: (1) Continue to remove institutional bottlenecks, perfect mechanisms and policies on land, taxes, fees, charges, and credit capital to create conditions for agricultural and rural development; (2) Pay attention and focus on planning work, especially sectoral planning, planning of industrial zones and clusters serving agricultural production and processing; (3) Continue to review legal regulations to liberate resources from land, maximize the efficiency of land; (4) Focus on solving mechanisms and policies on credit capital and agricultural insurance, promote the formation of linkage chains in agricultural production; (5) Continue to have solutions focusing on opening the agricultural product market, especially the Halal food market, prioritizing the building of Vietnamese agricultural product brands; (6) Promote the application of science, technology, innovation, digital transformation, and development of artificial intelligence in the agricultural sector in Vietnam; (7) Strengthen innovation in vocational training towards training high-quality human resources and converting human resources from agricultural and rural areas to industrial and urban areas; (8) Focus on developing and innovating culture in agriculture and rural areas; (9) The grassroots political system must always grasp the thoughts and aspirations of farmers and convey the Party and State's policies and guidelines to farmers, periodically organize listening and dialogue with farmers.
Strong shift from production thinking to agricultural economic thinking
To concretize the above conclusions, and at the same time deploy solutions to support farmers in promoting agricultural production, aiming to complete the goal of building ecological agriculture, modern countryside, civilized farmers; helping farmers arouse their desire to get rich, confidently entering the new era, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to remove difficulties and bottlenecks in production and organization of agricultural production today to unleash farmers' resources to successfully build ecological agriculture, modern countryside, and civilized farmers.
Accordingly: (i) Continue to focus on perfecting institutions, building mechanisms, policies, strategies, plans, and effectively organizing the implementation of 04 national sectoral plans in the agricultural sector; (ii) Strongly transform from production thinking to agricultural economic thinking, from single-sector development to multi-sector cooperation and development; promote multi-value integration in agricultural, forestry and fishery products; (iii) Build breakthrough mechanisms and policies for breakthroughs in production, remove all barriers regarding land, administrative procedures, and costs of compliance with regulations for people and businesses; (iv) Synchronously and effectively implement programs, projects, and tasks to promote agricultural restructuring according to 3 groups of key product axes (national, regional, local).
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development summarizes and evaluates the results of piloting the construction of 5 concentrated agricultural commodity raw material areas, and at the same time guides localities in building and developing concentrated, large-scale raw material and commodity production areas to meet the requirements of the domestic and export markets.
In addition, reorganize and innovate production forms in agriculture and rural areas. Develop appropriate and effective production organization forms associated with the digital transformation process and digital economy in agriculture and rural areas. Coordinate with the Vietnam Farmers' Union to effectively implement Decision 182/QD-TTg dated February 20, 2024 of the Prime Minister on the Project of the Vietnam Farmers' Union participating in the development of collective economy in agriculture until 2030". Focus on prioritizing the formation of many large-scale and effective cooperatives and cooperative groups in agriculture.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development focuses on doing a good job of market forecasting connecting producers with consumers, taking advantage of FTAs, especially EVFTA and CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) to restructure export markets, reduce dependence on some markets, remove barriers to penetrate new markets with great potential, especially the Halal food market.
Develop mechanisms and policies to promote sustainable marine aquaculture and seafood exploitation; have solutions to protect aquatic resources and biodiversity in fishing grounds; focus on thoroughly resolving EC recommendations to remove the "Yellow Card" in 2025, prevent and strictly handle fishing vessels illegally fishing abroad; study and propose setting up a Fisheries Infrastructure Development Fund to be able to gather and mobilize resources for investment in fisheries infrastructure development.
Resolutely and effectively organize the implementation of the Project on Science Development and Application, Technology Transfer to Promote Circular Economy in Agriculture by 2030 according to Decision No. 540/QD-TTg, dated June 19, 2024; Strategy for Agricultural Extension Development by 2030, with a vision to 2050 after being approved by the Prime Minister; Encourage, support, and promote processing and preservation to diversify products, ensure quality and food safety, increase added value and reduce post-harvest losses of agricultural, forestry and fishery products.
The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to study and soon submit to the Government for promulgation Decrees on Encouraging agricultural, forestry and fishery production and processing establishments to invest in applying or converting new, advanced, clean and environmentally friendly technologies and Decrees on mechanization and synchronous mechanization in agriculture.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinates with the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union to complete the set of indicators for farmers to evaluate the quality of agricultural input materials; the project of the Vietnam Farmers' Union participating in the propaganda to ensure food safety.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinates with the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union and relevant agencies to evaluate and summarize the 5-year implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress (term 2021 - 2026) on ecological agriculture, modern agriculture, and civilized farmers, thereby systematizing theories on agriculture, farmers, and rural areas, summarizing practices, closely following practices in the past 5 years, and proposing viewpoints and development orientations for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas during the term of the 14th National Party Congress (2026 - 2031).
Extensive guidance for farmers to grasp and apply new land policies for economic development
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment continues to review legal documents on land in the direction that all regulations aim to liberate resources from land, maximize the efficiency of land. Create more favorable conditions for farmers, increase the dissemination of information on land policies for ethnic minorities; provide extensive guidance for farmers to grasp and apply these new land policies to develop family economy, rural economy and participate in building sustainable new rural areas.
Coordinate with ministries, agencies and localities to strengthen guidance and dissemination of regulations of the 2024 Land Law, focusing on new regulations on land allocation, land lease, land concentration and accumulation for farmers, cooperatives and other entities.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to establish a "Special Working Group" of the Prime Minister to inspect the current status of land use at state-owned forestry farms, and report to the Prime Minister the inspection results (in the second quarter of 2025) to have mechanisms and policies for effective exploitation of land resources.
Early formation of agricultural insurance market
The Ministry of Finance summarizes and evaluates the implementation results of Decree No. 58/2018/ND-CP dated April 18, 2018 of the Government on agricultural insurance, researches, amends and supplements a number of articles of Decree No. 58/2018/ND-CP to soon form an agricultural insurance market.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment continues to disseminate and guide the implementation of approved plans, focusing on propagating and guiding farmers and cooperatives on regional and provincial planning. The Ministry of Planning and Investment coordinates with the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union to promote the implementation of the Project "Vietnam Farmers' Union participates in collective economic development in agriculture until 2030" according to Decision No. 182/QD-TTg, dated February 20, 2024 of the Prime Minister to ensure the set goals, forming more cooperatives and cooperative groups in agriculture. Continue to research and issue breakthrough and specific incentive policies to encourage organizations, businesses and individuals to invest in agriculture and rural areas. Have policies to attract large FDI enterprises and corporations to invest in agriculture and rural areas in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade continues to research and open new markets, including the Halal food market. Review and continue to effectively implement market information work, update and promptly disseminate to farmers, cooperatives and businesses about new regulations of FTAs, as well as specific requirements of each market for imported agricultural, forestry and fishery products. Research and develop a program "Bringing national agricultural product brands to the world" for key agricultural products and export strengths such as rice, coffee, pepper, tropical fruits and seafood. Continue to develop and implement propaganda and promotion programs for national brands for key agricultural products and export strengths of Vietnam to the world.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade promotes market development and trade promotion activities, promotes the circulation and consumption of rice products; supports businesses in effectively building rice supply chains associated with logistics services to international markets. Researches the implementation of specialized agricultural commodity trading floors with strengths such as rice, coffee, pepper, tea, etc.; researches and builds price indexes for some agricultural products with strengths of Vietnam as a basis for world price reference to increase the value of Vietnamese agricultural products.
Promote the implementation of specific credit programs in the agricultural sector.
The State Bank of Vietnam continues to direct credit institutions to promote lending to the agricultural and rural sectors in accordance with Decree No. 55/2015/ND-CP, dated June 9, 2015, Decree No. 116/2018/ND-CP, dated September 7, 2018 of the Government, creating favorable conditions for customers in credit relations (regarding procedures, collateral, etc.).
The State Bank of Vietnam shall coordinate with relevant agencies to urgently develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a Decree amending and supplementing the credit policy for agricultural and rural development according to Decree No. 55/2015/ND-CP, including increasing the level of unsecured loans; supplementing preferential credit policies for organic and circular agriculture to suit current actual capital needs and contribute to promoting sustainable agricultural production.
The State Bank of Vietnam coordinates with ministries and localities to promote the implementation of specific credit programs in the agricultural sector under the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, such as: The loan program linked to the implementation of the Project of 01 million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice in the Mekong Delta according to Decision No. 1490/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister, the loan program for the forestry and fishery sectors.
Periodically organize dialogues with farmers
The Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union continues to implement the tasks and solutions stated in Resolution No. 46-NQ/TW, dated December 20, 2023 of the Politburo on innovating and improving the quality of activities of the Vietnam Farmers' Union to meet the requirements of revolutionary tasks in the new period.
The Vietnam Farmers' Union shall preside over and coordinate with ministries and agencies to urgently develop projects and programs specifically stated in Resolution No. 69/NQ-CP dated May 11, 2024 of the Government on promulgating the Government's Action Program on implementing Resolution No. 46-NQ/TW of the Politburo; promote and innovate, diversify information and propaganda work to farmers and cooperatives with diverse, rich and practical communication products; preside over and coordinate with ministries and agencies to organize Conferences and Forums to listen to and dialogue with farmers to ensure substance and effectiveness to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for farmers according to each topic, field and locality.
The People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities regularly grasp the thoughts and aspirations of farmers and convey the Party and State's policies to farmers, and periodically organize dialogues with farmers. Preside over the organization of the Conference of Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to dialogue with farmers on a quarterly basis. At the same time, direct the organization of the Conference of Chairmen of the People's Committees at the district level to dialogue with farmers on a monthly basis.
People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities focus on seriously implementing national, regional and provincial planning. Proactively advise and propose sectoral and product planning suitable to local conditions and advantages. Based on functions and tasks, proactively develop and promulgate action programs and plans to implement solutions to promote green and sustainable agricultural and rural development.
Focus and prioritize resources for investment in agriculture and rural areas, especially investment in infrastructure serving agricultural production and processing of agricultural, forestry and fishery products. Focus on calling for and attracting large enterprises, corporations, and businesses to invest in agriculture and rural areas in accordance with local conditions and advantages...
The Prime Minister noted that in the process of implementing the arrangement and streamlining of the State administrative apparatus, each ministry, sector and locality must not interrupt work, not leave areas and fields vacant, and continue to implement solutions to support and promote agricultural and rural development. After completing the arrangement, consolidation, streamlining and transfer of functions and tasks, ministries and agencies shall continue to implement the specific tasks and solutions of each ministry as stated, depending on the functions and tasks of the (new) ministry or agency.
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