8 Key Tasks and Solutions Set by Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to Achieve 4% Growth Target

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has issued an action plan aimed at boosting the sector’s growth to at least 4% in 2025, with an export turnover target of USD 65 billion.

Minister of Agriculture and Environment Do Duc Duy has just signed and issued a document on the action plan and development goals of the sector in 2025. Specifically, striving to increase the added value of the agriculture, forestry and fishery sector by 4% or more. Photo: Khuong Trung.

The main targets include:

• Agriculture: 3.85% growth (crop production: 2.4% - 2.9%; livestock: 5.7% - 5.98%)

• Fishery: 4.35% growth

• Forestry: 5.47% growth

• Total export turnover: USD 65 billion (striving for USD 70 billion)  

The Ministry emphasizes unity and coordinated action to achieve these targets, ensuring the plan is clear, feasible, and easy to monitor. Responsibilities will be assigned according to the "5 clears" principle: clear person, clear task, clear responsibility, clear product, and clear completion time.  

Main Tasks and Solutions:

• Enhance Awareness and Political Determination: Strengthen leadership and coordination to promote growth in the agriculture and environment sectors. This includes close cooperation between units of the Ministry, levels of government, sectors, and localities.
• Improve Institutions and Policies: Update legal frameworks to support sector growth and exports. This includes aligning with new organizational structures, promoting green finance, and supporting farmers and businesses.

There are support policies to ensure that people can feel secure in production and businesses can operate in case of market fluctuations. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.

• Restructure the Sector: Enhance productivity, quality, and added value through technology, digital transformation, and innovation. This includes shifting to higher-value crops, developing sustainable production, and promoting cooperation.
• Reform Administrative Procedures: Simplify processes through digital transformation to support businesses and people. This includes developing a national agricultural product exchange and reducing unnecessary regulations.
• Promote Digital Transformation and Technology: Apply new technologies in production, processing, and preservation. This also includes reducing costs and post-harvest losses.

Making breakthroughs in application, transfer of science, technology, and innovation. Photo: Tung Dinh.

• Develop Markets: Expand domestic and export markets through trade promotion, negotiation, and diversification. This includes addressing trade barriers, complying with export regulations, and building the "Vietnamese Agricultural Products" brand.

Strengthen trade promotion, open markets, negotiate to remove technical barriers, trade barriers and open official export channels to more agricultural products to traditional markets and markets with large total export turnover. Photo: HT.

• Develop Supporting Industries: Improve the efficiency of management and use of resources such as land and water, while developing supporting industries such as irrigation and disaster prevention. This aims to increase productivity and resilience.
• Enhance Communication: Improve communication on agricultural and environmental policies to create consensus and promote successful models.