The southern province of Binh Phuoc, deemed Vietnam’s “cashew capital”, needs to devise a project to develop cashews as its key crops, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has said.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong (front, left) visits a cashew farm in Binh Phuoc province (Photo: VNA)
Binh Phuoc (VNA) - The southern province of Binh Phuoc, deemedVietnam’s “cashew capital”, needs to devise a project to develop cashews as its keycrops, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong hassaid.
Home to a large area of farm land, with various national key crops,including cashew, rubber, and pepper, the province has made efforts inagricultural restructuring and focused on soil advantages to create momentum forthe agricultural sector, Cuong said during a recent working session with localleaders.
With a planned area of 150,000 ha and output of 3 tonnes per ha, BinhPhuoc accounts for more than half of the country's cashew cultivation area and output.
It also has more than 1,400 processing establishments with acombined capacity of over 500,000 tonnes a year.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong (standing) and Binh Phuoc officials at a recent meeting (Photo: VNA)
The minister urged the province to review planning and agriculturalrestructuring to capitalise on its strengths. Agencies under MARD will help theprovince select cashew varieties most suitable with its soil and climate toreplace low-yield varieties, he said.
Binh Phuoc is expected to soon have a cashew sector worth billions of USD,Cuong said.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi said effortshave been made to double the average cashew output to 2 tonnes per ha so as toraise product value and quality.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to agricultural production last year,Binh Phuoc’s agro-forestry-fishery value increased 12.7 percent to more than28.78 trillion VND. The province earned over 2.8 billion USD from exports, withcashew making up 35 percent, a year-on-year rise of 7.3 percent.
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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong (front, left) visits a cashew farm in Binh Phuoc province (Photo: VNA) 
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong (standing) and Binh Phuoc officials at a recent meeting (Photo: VNA) 
