Strategy issued to boost sustainable agricultural development
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a strategy for sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas for 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050.
Hanoi (VNA) –Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a strategy for sustainabledevelopment of agriculture and rural areas for 2021 - 2030, with a vision to2050.
The general goal is todevelop cash crop cultivation based on local advantages; orientedtowards high productivity, quality, effectiveness, sustainability, and competitiveness;firmly guarantees national food security; and substantially helps withsocio-economic stability, natural disaster and epidemic prevention and control,climate change response, and effective implementation of internationalcommitments on greenhouse gas emission reduction.
The strategy also aims toimprove income, life quality, role, and stature of agricultural stakeholders;create non-agriculture jobs to help rural residents alleviate poverty andensure equal development opportunities among the regions; comprehensively developrural areas; uphold and bring into play the national cultural identity; andcombine agricultural and rural economic development with new-style countrysidebuilding.
A net house for vegetable cultivation in An Binh ward of Rach Gia city, Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA)
Among the detailed targetsfor 2030, agriculture - forestry - fisheries are expected to achieve GDP growthof 2.5 - 3 percent, an increase of 5.5 - 6 percent in labour productivity, andexports rise of 5 - 6 percent each year on average.
Besides, the strategy looksto raise rural residents’ income by 2.5 - 3 times from 2020, bring down the multidimensionalhousehold poverty rate by 1 - 1.5 percent annually, reduce the percentage of agriculturalworkers to less than 20 percent of the total workers in society, and increase therate of trained agricultural workers to over 70 percent.
It also targets at least 90percent of the communes nationwide recognised as new-style rural areas, environmentallyfriendly agriculture adapted to climate change, and greenhouse gas emissionsdown 10 percent from 2020./.
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A net house for vegetable cultivation in An Binh ward of Rach Gia city, Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA) 
