Farmers in many places have been continuously repeating the chorus of "planting and chopping down" for many years, and it still happens now with all kinds of fruit trees and agricultural products.
Loc Troi Group and the agricultural sector of Giang Thanh District (Kien Giang Province) has just co-held a summary meeting on their environment protection program.
The galloping cost of agricultural materials has put farmers in despair; even a farmer moaned that agricultural material prices have never decreased in 2022.
The Central Highlands has over 5 million hectares of agricultural land. The agricultural development here has many advantages, but the situation of “bumper crops, low prices” and “bad harvest, high prices” occurs in many places. Sometimes, agricultural products even face stagnancy in consumption.
According to Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Phan Van Mai, more workers, farmers, laborers with achievements in production should be awarded transparently to encourage them.
According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, the consumer demand of the world market is changing, so it is impossible to continue to produce in small scale but cooperation is needed. Therefore, departments of agriculture and rural development in cities and provinces need to connect farmers with businesses.
The Government has just submitted a support package of VND350 trillion (US$15.43 billion) for socio-economic recovery and development to the National Assembly. This is the largest stimulus package in history up to this point, with the expectation that the entire economy will overcome the pandemic, ensuring that no one is left behind.
Typhoon Conson bringing heavy rain and strong winds inundated and damaged many hectares of rice in the central provinces. Farmers are trying to harvest rice fields submerged in the aftermath of the storm.
Every time China stops importing agricultural products or when the Covid-19 pandemic happens, several agricultural products are unsalable, then the rescue of them to support farmers will take place repeatedly. According to many experts, the sector needs to accelerate parallel solutions, such as reducing loan interest rates, applying land rental support policies, and providing information on global production, to escape from this situation.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, on June 11, had a meeting with leaders of Vinh Long Province, and at the same time met purple sweet potato farmers in Binh Tan District to have a long-term solution to solve the problem about consumption for agricultural products in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The price of Japanese purple sweet potatoes in Vinh Long and Dong Thap provinces had just increased from VND40,000-VND50,000 per quintal to about VND200,000 per quintal, but in the past few days, it has dropped to about VND100,000 per quintal due to the difficult export situation.
Recently, the situation that farmers raise white-leg shrimp in freshwater areas, specializing in wet rice cultivation in the districts in the Plain of Reeds in Long An Province tends to increase.
From the beginning of this year, the developments in the weather were quite complicated, causing disadvantages for agricultural production. Fortunately, thanks to proactive suitable coping measures, farmers in provinces in the Mekong Delta achieved goods results in the winter-spring rice crop and now are harvesting summer-autumn rice crop with the expectation of good harvest and high price.
Because African swine fever is possibly recurring in several areas leading to shortage of hog, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development called on farmers and cooperatives to restore pig herds.
Once well-known as sugar cane islet in the Mekong Delta with sugar cane fields spreading for miles and miles, Cu Lao Dung District in Soc Trang Province no longer grows sugar cane because prices of sugar cane have dropped drastically for recent years. Farmers here decided to switch to grow other fruits and fish.
Mr. Vo Trung Thanh, Chairman of the Shaped Fruits Club in Phu Tri A Hamlet in Phu Tan Commune in Hau Giang Provine’s Chau Thanh District, said that more than 10,000 wine-gourd-shaped pomelos and word-imprinted mangoes have been ordered by dealers across the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday announced farmers in the Mekong delta have earned more thanks to agricultural restructuring.
Despite efforts to fortify the dyke following recent downpours by hundreds of adult members of a village and military soldiers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak who have been working relentlessly over the past days, a section of dyke in the field in Quang Dien Commune breached and the field was inundated yesterday.
Price of pig leaped again after dropping for a few months making breeders feel eager to raise more pigs for huge profit in Tet holidays ( the Lunar New New Year). however, experts warned breeders to be cautious to avoid risks.
