Developing agriculture and ensuring food security should play a centralrole in the national development strategy of any country, Deputy PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.
Speaking at a debatesession in the framework of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia2015 in Jakarta on April 21 which focused on ways to improve foodsecurity in Asia in the future, Deputy PM Phuc stressed that governmentsaround the world need to make strong their commitments to agriculturaldevelopment.
He stated that Vietnam continually works hard toaccelerate its agricultural restructuring in order to build anenvironmentally friendly sector creating highly competitive products.
TheVietnamese official underlined the need to design appropriate policiesto mobilise investment for agriculture and to seek new markets for farmproducts exports.
According to Deputy PM Phuc, it is necessaryto promote cooperation among nations in ensuring food security andagriculture development, as well as in sustainably managing andexploiting water sources, especially in international rivers in theregion.
Phuc also briefed participants on Vietnam’s agriculturalorientations, saying that agriculture holds a strategic position in thecountry’s industrialisation and modernisation process and that Vietnamhas carried out a number of reforms in the field.
The speakeraffirmed that Vietnam backs and proactively implements agriculturalinitiatives, adding that the signing of free trade agreements withforeign countries will open new markets for Vietnamese farm productexports and create new opportunities for enterprises to invest in thefield.
Taking the occasion, the Vietnamese official calledon international investors to funnel their capital into agriculture inVietnam.
In 2014, Vietnam shipped over 6.5 million tonnesof rice and large volumes of another agro-forest-aquacultural productsto foreign markets, raking in 31 billion USD.-VNA
Speaking at a debatesession in the framework of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia2015 in Jakarta on April 21 which focused on ways to improve foodsecurity in Asia in the future, Deputy PM Phuc stressed that governmentsaround the world need to make strong their commitments to agriculturaldevelopment.
He stated that Vietnam continually works hard toaccelerate its agricultural restructuring in order to build anenvironmentally friendly sector creating highly competitive products.
TheVietnamese official underlined the need to design appropriate policiesto mobilise investment for agriculture and to seek new markets for farmproducts exports.
According to Deputy PM Phuc, it is necessaryto promote cooperation among nations in ensuring food security andagriculture development, as well as in sustainably managing andexploiting water sources, especially in international rivers in theregion.
Phuc also briefed participants on Vietnam’s agriculturalorientations, saying that agriculture holds a strategic position in thecountry’s industrialisation and modernisation process and that Vietnamhas carried out a number of reforms in the field.
The speakeraffirmed that Vietnam backs and proactively implements agriculturalinitiatives, adding that the signing of free trade agreements withforeign countries will open new markets for Vietnamese farm productexports and create new opportunities for enterprises to invest in thefield.
Taking the occasion, the Vietnamese official calledon international investors to funnel their capital into agriculture inVietnam.
In 2014, Vietnam shipped over 6.5 million tonnesof rice and large volumes of another agro-forest-aquacultural productsto foreign markets, raking in 31 billion USD.-VNA
