The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Dutch Embassy in Vietnam held a webinar on sustainable agriculture transformation in the Mekong Delta on September 6.

Despite numerous difficulties coming from the domestic and international situation, the agricultural sector has managed to achieve important targets, and it still persists in this year’s agro-forestry-fishery export target of US$50 billion as assigned by the Prime Minister.

Businesses, especially start-ups, are focusing more on green agriculture, and the model has produced positive results and feedback from the community.

Import-export revenue of agro-forestry-aquatic products was estimated to reach US$66.2 billion in the first eight months of 2022, up 8.7% year on year, of which export turnover hit about US$36.3 billion, a year-on-year rise of 13.1%, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The "Vietnam Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation in Agriculture through Private Sector Transformation” (VN-ADAPT) is expected to greatly contribute to supporting the resilience of the Mekong Delta region against the severe impacts of climate change.

Mechanisation in agricultural production will help Vietnam become one of the top ten leading agricultural processing hubs in the world by 2050, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam said on August 24.

The Vietnamese government has issued an agricultural restructuring policy, by which the rice structure has been strongly adjusted, changing the rice cultivation protocols and paying more attention to improving rice quality rather than increasing production.

VOV.VN - The implementation of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has greatly contributed to raising two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and Poland to over US$1 billion since the beginning of the year.

A total of 80 domestic and foreign firms have registered to take part in the 2022 Agritechnica Asia Live, scheduled to take place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 24-26.

VOV.VN - Vietnam expects Qatar will provide the official development assistance (ODA) for infrastructure development and agricultural development projects in the country.