Từ khóa: #urban agriculture

Enduring the negative impacts of the fourth Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the agriculture sector in Ho Chi Minh City is implementing high technologies for its recovery.

In 2019, the average income of a rural resident in HCMC was about VND63 million (US$2,743) per year, up 58 percent compared to 2015. The area of agricultural land and the number of agricultural, forestry, and fishery households decreased. However, the GRDP in the agricultural sector still increased because farmers had applied high technology to agricultural production and shifted to valuable crops and livestock, with the support of the city's policy of supporting interest rates on loans for agricultural investment.

The President emphasized that the mission of the High-Tech Agricultural Park in Ho Chi Minh City is not only to promote high-tech agriculture in the city but also to play the leading role in the agricultural transformation of the East and the Southwest regions toward quality, value, and environmental friendliness.

Being a national financial-economic center, Ho Chi Minh City cannot avoid urbanization. However, this process must be carefully monitored to ensure that it is on the right track with the priority to offer the best living environment for its residents, as stated by experts in the planning field.