What are regulations organizing important stages in production to improve efficiency and ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development in Vietnam?

What are regulations organizing important stages in production to improve efficiency and ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Section III.2, Article 1 of the Decision 150/QD-TTg in 2022 stipulating organizing important stages in production to improve efficiency and ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development in Vietnam as follows:

- Complete research, selection, transfer and application of plant, animal and aquatic varieties with high productivity, quality and tolerance; conserve and develop indigenous varieties. Develop a system of producing and trading varieties to meet the requirements of quantity and quality for mass production. Encourage all economic sectors to invest in variety production towards modern industry; promote public-private partnership in the supply of quality and disease-free varieties. Promote international cooperation, import good varieties suitable for Vietnam's conditions; strengthen the management of varieties in order to quickly increase the use of variety in conformity with technical standards for production.

- Innovate methods for management, use and trading of agricultural materials towards professional and responsible agricultural production; increase the use of organic fertilizers, microbial fertilizers, biological plant protection drugs, etc. Develop programs for integrated plant health management (IPHM) and use of beneficial organisms for key plants to protect production, control soil degradation, and protect soil "health", human and animal health and ecological environment. Increase the use of domestic agricultural products and processing by-products to produce animal feed, aquatic products, organic fertilizers, etc., in order to reduce dependence on imports. Research and master the processes for producing drugs, chemicals and vaccines used in agriculture to proactively and promptly supply and respond to pandemics. Form agricultural material production and business associations to cooperate with State authorities in operating, inspecting and supervising the production, circulation and use of agricultural products in a transparent and efficient manner.

- Improve the level of synchronous mechanization, automation from production to harvesting, preservation and processing based on the value chain, first of all for flagship products. Encourage the private sectors to invest in the development of the agricultural machine production industry and agricultural product processing and preservation technology; specially prioritize advanced technologies, environmentally friendly technologies and technologies suitable for the characteristics of each industry. The State shall cooperate with economic sectors in training officials and technical workers to use, repair and maintain agricultural machineries. Assist farmers in investing and applying advanced mechanized equipments, greenhouses, net houses, modern livestock barns in association with advanced and high-tech production processes. Develop agricultural mechanization service business.

- Focus on building specialized production areas to ensure sustainable standards and meet each market category. Form some industrial zones and clusters and services serving agricultural production (warehouses, yards, processing plants, hatcheries, etc.) to associate production zones with processing and trading zones. Build high-industrial agricultural zones. Build inspection and warning systems to ensure safety in production. Connect traffic with logistics between regions with the main market or border checkpoints.

- Develop industry of the production of products, raw materials, machineries and equipments serving production, processing and consumption to ensure prompt supply, quality and reduction of agricultural production costs. Prioritize the development of the processing industry, increase the proportion of deep processing to reduce costs and increase the value of agricultural products. Invest in improving processing capacity, preservation and logistics services for main specialized farming areas, focus on national strategic agricultural products. Form concentrated material areas to supply enough raw materials to ensure quality standards for processing facilities. Attract leading enterprises with enough capital, science and technology and market capacity to effectively lead value chains in order to develop clusters of production, processing and consumption in localities and regions having large agricultural production, convenient transportation, labor and logistics to create conditions for the growth of these localities.

What are regulations on promoting cooperation and association to develop value chains and advanced agricultural models in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Section III.3, Article 1 of the Decision 150/QD-TTg in 2022 stipulating promoting cooperation and association to develop value chains and advanced agricultural models in Vietnam as follows:

- Rapidly convert from developing "agricultural product supply chains" to developing "commodity value chains". Prioritize completion of value chains for national flagship products industries to support building of value chains for local flagship products industries. Based on large-scale specialized areas of agricultural flagship products, develop cooperatives, gradually reduce intermediaries, strengthen connection with large processing or trading enterprises to form value chains; use the value chains of agricultural products to connect with small specialized farming areas to form a common economic space among areas with similar conditions and "crossing" of administrative boundaries. Associate contributing factors in the chain in a manner of transparency, responsibility and benefit sharing according to the value contribution levels.

- Promote experiment and propagation of new agricultural production models to be models for specialized farming areas and meet market requirements such as: ecological agriculture, green agriculture, saving of resources and reduction of waste; organic agriculture, circular agriculture, smart agriculture, high-tech agriculture, agro-industry (agricultural product processing, recycling of waste and by-products, renewable energy production, etc.), agro-service (experience tourism, environmental protection services, training services and technology transfer provision, agribusiness services, etc.). Effectively evaluate these models to draw experience, scale up, and introduce new technologies and management.

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