The agricultural production is in dire need of the international community’s assistance in dealing with climate change, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The agricultural production is in dire need ofthe international community’s assistance in dealing with climate change, DeputyMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said.
He was speaking at a policy forum discussing opportunities for climate-smartfood system jointly held by the International Potato Centre, the VietnamAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, and The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and FoodSecurity in Hanoi on April 10.
Vietnam has implemented a project on restructuring agriculture towardsraising added value and securing sustainable development for six years.
Localities in the Mekong delta that is predicted to be hardest hit by climatechange have shifted 40,000 ha of farming land to aquaculture and growing fruittrees as part of efforts to make climate-smart agriculture. At the same time,they still managed to maintain rice output by increasing productivity and thequality of rice varieties.
Over the past time, international organizations have been helping Vietnamparticularly the Mekong delta areas, reduce adverse impacts of climate change onagriculture, Doanh said.
He expected the international organizations continue playing their “key role”and work together with Vietnamese agencies and localities in more specific programmesto ensure climate-smart agriculture.
Climate change is producing negative effects on farming production in Vietnamand many other countries in the world, requiring nations to introduce solutionsto climate-smart food systems.
At the forum, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of India Ashwini Kumar said India is workingtogether with seven Asian countries in the production of plant varietiesadapting to climate change, and can share with Vietnam its varieties models.
Participants presented groups of solutions to changing food producing,processing and consuming methods in agriculture in order to get adapted toclimate change.-VNA
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Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh (Photo: VNA)
