Strongly invest in scientific applications in agriculture

In the 2006-2010 period, scientific and technological applications have made important contributions to the development of the agricultural sector and achieved many important achievements.

Many research results have been applied to production, contributing to increasing productivity, output and quality of agricultural, aquatic and forestry products with high speed.

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Mr. Trieu Van Hung, Director of Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, from 2006-2010, investment from the state budget for agricultural and technological development and science rural areas increase by an average of 11% / year; The total funding from the scientific career capital is 2,416 billion VND.

Through the implementation of scientific applications on restructuring production, cultivation, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry . has contributed to improving productivity, quality and product value, reaching the level The growth of the entire agricultural sector is quite high.

From 2006-2009, the fisheries sector achieved an average growth rate of production value of 8.96% / year. Seafood export turnover, in 2008, reached 4.51 billion USD. The growth of forestry production value reached an average of 2.3% / year. In particular, the growth rate of forest product export turnover reached an average of nearly 20% / year .

After joining the WTO, the agricultural sector has had many successes in terms of agricultural, forestry and fishery exports. Many scientific applications have helped agricultural products to increase productivity, output, quality and competitiveness in the market.

As a result, agricultural export turnover has increased at a rate of 24% per year and total turnover of USD 16,475 million (2008), exceeding the planned target for 52% by 2010. Export markets are expanding, many products have a large market share and a high position in the world such as cashew nuts and pepper ranked first; rice and coffee ranked second; Rubber ranked fourth, tea ranked fifth and seafood ranked seventh.

Mr. Trieu Van Hung also added that the priority orientation in the coming time is to continue to apply scientific and technical advances in selecting and developing high-quality and good-quality plant and animal varieties. ; develop and apply technologies to production in a synchronous, closed and modernized manner.