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This afternoon (September 28), in the city of Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak province, the third Prime Minister’s Dialogue with farmers in 2020 took place with the theme “Central – Central Highlands – Overcoming challenges, increasing the value of agricultural products, helping agriculture prosper, wealthy farmers and a modern, civilized countryside. “
Prime Minister answers questions from farmers
At the beginning of the conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that today there are 15 agencies attending the conference, including the Party committees, the National Assembly, the Government, the ministries directly related to the issues. that concern farmers. In addition, there are organizational units for production and consumption, credit capital …, all of which concern farmers. The Prime Minister expected that 350 farmers present at the conference would ask questions closely to the actual requirements, appropriate to the characteristics of production in the Central – Central Highlands region. Each region is unique and related to the entire country, but you still need to focus on specific regional issues.
The Prime Minister claimed that the Covid-19 epidemic occurred, causing the global economy to grow negatively, but Vietnam still grew positively, including significant support from agriculture and rural areas …
According to the Prime Minister, this year, due to Covid-19, many workers lost their jobs, but workers in agricultural and rural areas of Vietnam were almost not unemployed, while many in urban areas were unemployed. For example, Japan is an industrialized country, but the government also has to provide money for agricultural workers to work. The good news is that Vietnam’s agricultural export business volume still reached $ 42 billion, it is one of the leading countries in Asia in terms of exports. This year, a pandemic, but basically our country still has the winning season for rice, aquatic products, fruit … It can be said that agriculture wins comprehensively. The number of hungry households decreased by 70% during the same period. However, the responsibility of the whole society still has many things to do, and there are still many concerns that need solutions to eliminate.
At the dialogue session, farmer Do Quy Toan (Krong Ana district, Dak Lak province) said that in the past, coffee prices have dropped a lot, which is worrying farmers in many localities who want to cut them down for plant other trees. “Should coffee growers continue to maintain the coffee trees or convert them to other crops, please?” asked Mr. Math.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc responded first, coffee is a key strategic product of Vietnam. The quality of Vietnamese coffee is very good and highly appreciated by the world. Therefore, the Prime Minister advised people to continue growing coffee, but clearly plan the planting area. Farmers are not allowed to continue deforestation to plant coffee, but to improve planning on the quality of coffee cultivation, intensive cultivation with quality for coffee trees. On the government side, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development continue to constantly expand the market, provide capital for replanting coffee, and improve the quality of replanting. Promote deep processing, improve product quality.
Farmer Tran Thi Hoang Anh (Gia Lai Province) raised the issue that the government and ministries have strengthened legal provisions and solutions on the management of fake fertilizers and fertilizers. “However, there is still a trade in fake fertilizers. What solutions do the government and ministries have to stop the current situation of fake fertilizers?” asked Mrs. Anh.
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong responded that after 2016, the Government and the National Assembly requested to reorganize and centralize a fertilizer management agency. After that, the Prime Minister issued a new decree and document that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is the agency that directly administers fertilizers. Currently our country has 125,000 hectares of agricultural cultivation by organic methods. And last year our country exported $ 353 million of organic agricultural products to 80 countries. That proves that we have a civilized agriculture, a clean and stable agriculture.
In addition to the response, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on the authorities to strictly investigate, prosecute, and prosecute organizations and individuals that make fake fertilizers. Actively detect agents and individuals that produce false fertilizers to manage and condemn negative behaviors.
The prime minister visited farmers and businesses
Farmer Vi Thi Thanh (Dak Nong province) raised the issue in the context that many key and traditional industrial crops of the central highlands, such as coffee, rubber and pepper, are all undervalued, macadamia is considered a new address. Farmers in the central highlands have invested heavily in planting macadamia, but after 5-6 years, they know that macadamia trees have little or no fruit. The reason is poor quality macadamia varieties. Usually in the Tuy Duc district of Dak Nong province, there are many farmers who suffer because the macadamia does not bear fruit. “So please ask the next prime minister, what solutions will the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have to develop macadamia trees?” Mrs. Thanh asked.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc responds that tomorrow the prime minister will preside over the 5-year macadamia plantation conference in Vietnam to show what is successful or not, the causes and solutions of macadamia development in Vietnam. It can be seen that the macadamia tree is a new tree that brings economic efficiency and the global demand has increased the demand by 200%. “With regard to seedlings that do not bear fruit, it is necessary to verify who provides the wrong seedling that causes macadamia trees to bear little or no fruit. At tomorrow’s conference we will listen and assimilate ideas. from everywhere to find the best solution for growing macadamia “- The Prime Minister emphasized and invited Vi Thi Thanh farmers to attend this conference.
Responding to a question from farmer Le Minh Quyen (Khanh Hoa province) about policies and solutions to develop and expand the potential of marine agriculture, the Prime Minister emphasized that we need to develop a strategy. Agricultural books in marine environments. Countries like Denmark, Norway are more advantageous than us, when they develop a very strong marine farming strategy and have modern technology. Currently, our country also needs to raise safety problems for marine agriculture, requiring decrees that guide fishermen to implement.
“Why does agriculture in Phu Yen Bay, Khanh Hoa have a lot of dead shellfish? It is necessary to find out the cause to learn from experience. In addition, I also want to pay attention to the development of marine agriculture, I should pay attention to the issue of protection.to protect the lives of our people, raise cages, but what should we do when we encounter a typhoon level 12?
At the conference, the Prime Minister and the ministries answered a series of questions from other farmers.
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