Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - With a growth target of more than 4.1 percent this year,Hanoi's agricultural sector is focusing on developing production, implementingwinter crop production, and preparing goods for the year-end market and Tet (Lunar New Year).

For thisyear's crop, Thuong Tin district’s rice yield is about 6 tonnes per hectare.

As soon asthe harvest is completed, the district will focus on winter crop production,with key crops including potatoes, zucchini, pumpkin and cucumber.

In thiswinter crop, the district strives to grow 2,100ha or more, of which the areafor maize is 100ha, soybeans 100ha, potatoes 130ha, sweet potatoes 30ha,vegetables of all kinds 1,585ha and flowers and ornamental plants about 155ha.

To bringhigh economic efficiency to farmers, Thuong Tin district give financialsupport to farmers to buy seeds, plants and to spend on production models.

In Me Linh district,the agricultural sector’s production value in the past nine months is nearly 1.8trillion VND (77.6 million USD), reaching 96 percent of the plan, up 6.2 percentover the same period last year.

Theproduction value of the crop production sector reached nearly 1.3 trillion VND (56.1million USD), up 1.4 percent over the same period last year.

The cropstructure has been shifted in the direction of gradually reducing ineffectiverice and maize acreage to crops of high economic value such as flowers andgreen vegetables, with a total area of nearly 20ha, deployed to build 40models of “one commune one product”.

Thelivestock sector in the district has also thrived, with the number of pigsincreasing to nearly 34,000 and poultry nearly 1.6 million.

Chairman ofMe Linh district People's Committee Hoang Anh Tuan said in the last months ofthe year, the district continued to clean and disinfect barns, as well asvaccinate animals against disease to promote the re-herding of pigs, strivingto reach 35,000 pigs by the end of the year.

In addition,the district focuses on cultivating more than 3,320ha of winter crops andpromoting product consumption, striving for agricultural production valueincreased by more than 10 percent.

Despitefacing many difficulties, in the past nine months, the capital’s agriculturesector has grown by more than 3 percent compared to the same period last year,according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Director ofthe department Chu Phu My said that along with increasing field inspection,forecasting, detecting and early handling of diseases, the department wouldwork with localities to adjust the structure and area of sowingand bring high-yield and high-quality varieties into production.

Thedepartment also focuses on directing and guiding localities to promotere-herding, increase the total number of pigs in the direction of biosafetyassociated with disease prevention and control, to develop aquaculture of higheconomic value and promote the development of production chains and productconsumption, ensuring the supply of quality agricultural products to thecapital in the last months of the year.

Theagricultural sector will make efforts to successfully implement the wintercrop, and achieve the growth target of 2020, he said./.