The Vice President said Venezuela has prepared 100,000 ha of agricultural land for Vietnamese investors, and emphasised that as Chairman of the Venezuela-Vietnam Intergovernmental Committee, he will directly monitor and support the implementation of cooperation initiatives.
To promote green innovation in agriculture, Vietnam needs to build a flexible market mechanism to encourage and support the development of environmental agricultural products.
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman expressed optimism that the country will become the world s food barn by 2028, and is determined to convert swamp areas into agricultural land.
The northern midland province of Phu Tho has undertaken measures to effectively and sustainably utilise its 297,000 hectares of agricultural land to facilitate the development of the agricultural sector.
During the debate on the draft revised Land Law at the 15th National Assembly’s fifth session in Hanoi on June 21, land planning and land valuation were at the focus of attention.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has just issued a decision approving and announcing the results of land area statistics for 2021, which states that nearly 1.2 million hectares of land across the country had been not used yet as of December 31, 2021.
Hanoi authorities have requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment strictly handle the bulldozing of hills and mountains and levelling of ponds, rivers and streams to sell land.
The HCM City People’s Committee has launched a pilot programme to build temporary structures on agricultural land in Cu Chi, Can Gio and Nha Be districts.
While most of the realty segment has struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic, agricultural land is still a hot investment as more people want to return to rural areas for a more environmentally-friendly life.
The Hoang Anh Gia Lai Agricultural JSC (HAGL Agrico), an affiliate of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, has inaugurated a banana packing plant and shipped the first batch of fresh bananas to China to meet growing demand.
Water and agricultural land in Nhon Hai commune, Ninh Hai district of the south central province of Ninh Thuan has been contaminated with high saline levels, affecting local production and livelihoods.
Night after night, thousands of cubic metres of sand and gravel have been illegally mined from a portion of the Cau River, causing erosion and affecting the dyke system for 200ha of agricultural land, online newspaper phapluatplus.vn reported.
Major challenges facing the Mekong Delta remain climate change and natural disasters, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong told a conference in Can Tho on July 14.
Vietnam risks a loss of 7.2 million tonnes of rice yield and 3.2 percent of its agricultural land by the late 21st century as a result of climate change, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development forecast.
Experts gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on June 15 to discuss activities to adapt to climate change in the agricultural sector to implement the Paris Agreement.
