In that spirit, many major policies have been promulgated by the Party and State to create a "push" to attract enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas. In which, Decree 57/2018/ND-CP stipulates policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas; Decision 68/2017/QD-TTg on the Supporting Industry Development Program from 2016 to 2025 and the Law on Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises.

Along with that, many localities have issued specific policies to support enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas with investment encouragement projects, a list of key agricultural products at the provincial level, etc. In recent years, many large enterprises and corporations have paid attention to and implemented investment projects in the agricultural sector, including the world's leading enterprises in fisheries, rice, coffee, etc. become the core of the agricultural value chain.

Up to now, the system of enterprises operating in the fields of agriculture and rural areas has been established with more than 50,000 enterprises, including production, processing, consumption of agricultural products and materials, agricultural products, and services. agricultural development service, in which, about 10,200 enterprises directly invest in the development of agricultural, forestry and fishery production.

However, many economic experts note that the number of enterprises investing in the agricultural sector currently accounts for only 8% of the total number of enterprises in the country and 96% of these are small and micro enterprises. That shows that the business community is not interested in investing in key areas of the country.

According to many businesses, investment in agriculture faces many risks from natural disasters, epidemics and low profits, making the ability to turn capital slow. Investment in high-tech agriculture requires large capital, leading to many unpredictable risks.

On the other hand, the "gap" between policy and practical implementation is still very large as it is difficult for enterprises to access land, markets, credit incentives, interest rates... the investors.

Obviously, investing in agriculture is also promoting the outstanding strengths of the agricultural country and more specifically, contributing to a faster transition to restructuring the agricultural industry, creating conditions for livelihoods, and increasing incomes. for farmers, towards sustainable rural development.

In order to create a favorable environment to attract investment in agriculture and rural areas, the Ministry of Planning and Investment is finalizing a draft Decree to support the development of enterprises investing in agriculture and rural areas to submit to the Government, replacing replace Decree 57/2018/ND-CP.

It is expected that in the period of 2021-2025, about 800 agricultural and rural projects will be implemented with a total investment of 107,000 billion VND, of which the support from the State budget is 8,600 billion VND.

Managers expect that the above resources will promote the market leadership role of enterprises, enterprises can change the way farmers produce. At that time, the rural area will standardize the cultivation, husbandry, farming, and processing of agricultural, forestry and fishery products... in line with market trends.

Because, the current form of organizing agricultural production in our country is mainly in more than 9.2 million production households, the scale is very small, but there are only about 20,000 agricultural cooperatives. Therefore, it is necessary to gather them in cooperatives, cooperative groups associated with enterprises into an ecosystem, creating favorable conditions for large enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas.

Agriculture still has a lot of potential and advantages, especially in terms of land fund, human resources and opportunities in the era of industrial revolution 4.0. Therefore, it is necessary to have a policy to create momentum strong enough to attract more and more businesses to invest in agriculture, to add value to the agricultural industry and to bring Vietnam to the top position in the world in exporting agricultural products. .

Thanh Thao