Sharing at the press conference about the work results in 2022 and the key tasks in 2023 organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the morning of December 30, Mr. Nguyen Van Viet - Director of the Planning Department - said: Knowing that, in the context of high input costs and reduced orders due to inflation in other countries, in 2022, the agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors will still play a "supportive" role of the economy, marking the a breakthrough in the export of agricultural products. This represents the industry's innovative, safe and resilient efforts to overcome difficulties and challenges…

Press conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

The product consumption market continued to expand in both categories and products, focusing on the domestic market and promptly removing many trade barriers.

Accordingly, the export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in 2022 will reach 53.2 billion USD with a trade surplus of 8.5 billion USD; there are 11 products with more than 1 billion USD, of which there are 2 new products which are fertilizers and feed and feed ingredients. The industry has 7 products/product groups with a turnover of over 3 billion USD: wood and wood products; shrimp; the coffee; rice; rubber; Vegetables; cashew.

Mr. Nguyen Van Viet assessed that in 2023, it is forecast that the economy will continue to face many difficulties and challenges such as: inflationary pressure and sharp increase in production costs; climate change is more and more obvious and extreme; changes in demand and new consumption patterns; especially the impact from the Russia-Ukraine conflict...

Even so, the agriculture and rural development sector still sets a target of 3% GDP growth rate in 2023; total export turnover of agriculture, forestry and fishery is 54 billion USD; the rate of communes meeting new rural standards is 78%; at least 270 district-level units have met the standards/completed the task of building new countryside.

To achieve the set goals, the agricultural sector continues to promote restructuring, improving productivity, quality of agricultural products and production and business efficiency. Strongly develop the market for consumption of agricultural, forestry and fishery products both domestically and for export. Building the value chain of each agricultural product, associated with the development of agricultural and rural logistics infrastructure, ensuring the supply chain of the domestic market .

At the same time, innovate and develop forms of production and business organization in agriculture; forms of cooperation and linkage in production and consumption of agricultural products along the value chain, connecting the global consumption system.

Mr. Phung Duc Tien - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development - said that in 2022, the main targets of the industry will all meet and exceed the Government's assigned. In particular, the industry's added value (GDP) reached 3.36%, the highest increase in recent years.

On the basis of the success of 2022, the agricultural sector will continue to promote its advantages in agricultural products and open more markets in 2023. The entire agriculture and rural sector will continue to accelerate restructuring towards development. develop ecological, modern agriculture, circular economy...

At the same time, focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, minimizing negative impacts of the epidemic and market fluctuations to increase exports, taking advantage of opportunities from bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. for Vietnamese agricultural products. ' The growth figures and market structure clearly show the shift from agricultural production to the agricultural economy. Agriculture is going from 'brown to green'. In which, control of pesticides in fields; fertilizer quality control", Mr. Phung Duc Tien shared .