Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Agriculture, farmers, and rural areas contribute to the overall socio -economic development of the country and are the pillars, premises, and foundation to help the country develop rapidly and sustainably - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
On the afternoon of December 30, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the conference of the Prime Minister's dialogue with farmers in 2023, with the theme "Farmers are the subject and center in agricultural development, rural economy and building green and sustainable new rural areas".
The conference was held directly at the Government Headquarters and online to 63 locations in provinces and centrally-run cities.
Also attending the conference were Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thi Thu Ha; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan; Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung; President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union Luong Quoc Doan; leaders of departments, ministries, branches, central agencies; leaders of provinces and cities; leaders of socio-political organizations, associations; especially with the participation of more than 4,000 delegates representing farmers nationwide.
Nearly 2,000 questions sent to the Prime Minister
Since 2018, the Prime Minister's Dialogue with Farmers has become an annual activity. Before this Conference, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union received nearly 2,000 questions from farmers to the Prime Minister, focusing on 6 main areas such as: The implementation of Resolution No. 26/NQ-CP of the Government implementing Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW on agriculture, farmers, and rural areas by 2030, with a vision to 2045; The project "Sustainable development of one million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030"; the role of farmers in implementing the commitment to reduce net emissions to zero by 2050.
In particular, farmers across the country asked many questions related to: Promoting digital transformation in agriculture; solutions, mechanisms, and policies to promote production and consumption of agricultural products; solutions to handle waste, waste, and protect the rural environment; caring for the lives, social security, and jobs... of people in rural areas.
With the viewpoint of "thinking honestly, speaking honestly, doing honestly, having real effectiveness, people enjoying real benefits, avoiding formalities"; to develop agriculture, farmers and rural areas better and better, in the spirit of high democracy, at the Conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and leaders of ministries and branches directly answered and discussed with farmers many specific and practical issues.
The Prime Minister proposed raising farmers' awareness of developing large-scale commodity agriculture, smart, clean and safe agriculture - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
As a pillar, premise, and foundation to contribute to the country's rapid and sustainable development.
Concluding the Conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the dialogue that took place in a lively, democratic, responsible and effective atmosphere, addressing many different issues, contributing to resolving a number of difficulties and bottlenecks in the spirit of starting from practice, respecting practice, closely following practice, taking practice as a measure, although one dialogue cannot solve all the problems of agriculture, farmers and rural areas. The Prime Minister assigned ministries, branches and agencies to absorb opinions, complete and submit specific and appropriate products after the Conference for effective and synchronous implementation.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the 5th Conference of the Prime Minister's Dialogue with Vietnamese Farmers in 2023 (the 2nd in the term of the 15th Government) is very important to concretize many major, strategic issues on agriculture, rural areas and farmers according to the Party's resolutions and the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the 8th National Congress of the Vietnam Farmers' Union, term 2023-2028.
The Prime Minister affirmed that the Party and State have always had a consistent viewpoint on the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers; have issued many important and strategic policies and guidelines, affirming the role and position of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the process of national development; in which the most prominent are Resolution of the 7th Central Conference, 10th tenure, Resolution 19 of the 5th Central Conference, 13th tenure on agriculture, farmers and rural areas; Resolution 20 of the 5th Central Conference, 13th tenure on collective economy; Resolution No. 46 of the Politburo on innovation and improvement of the quality of activities of the Vietnam Farmers' Union; Resolution No. 26/NQ-CP of the Government on promulgating the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW of the Party Central Committee.
Reviewing the outstanding achievements of agriculture, farmers, and rural areas, contributing to the overall socio-economic development of the country and being the pillar, premise, and foundation to contribute to the country's rapid and sustainable development, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that agricultural GDP growth in 2023 is estimated to reach 3.83%, the highest in many years.
The export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products has always remained high with 10 groups of products having an export turnover of 1 billion USD or more, the trade surplus value in 2023 is estimated at 11 billion USD; 78% of communes have met new rural standards, 20 provinces and centrally run cities have 100% of communes meeting new rural standards, 5 provinces have been recognized by the Prime Minister for completing the task of building new rural areas.
Besides expressing joy and pride in the achievements in agricultural, rural and farmer development, the Prime Minister also frankly pointed out the limitations that need to be overcome such as: Agricultural development still follows the "production mindset", not yet transformed to "economic mindset"; rural development planning is still inadequate, environmental pollution, the issue of preserving rural cultural identity, security and order in rural areas are posing many new challenges...
Strengthening linkages; diversifying production and supply chains; enhancing deep processing
Recalling President Ho Chi Minh's teachings on the people in general and farmers in particular, as well as the contents of the resolutions, guidelines and policies of the Party and State on agriculture, farmers and rural areas, in the coming time, to promote the right to mastery, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for farmers, and at the same time successfully and effectively implement the guidelines and policies of the Party and State, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and the Vietnam Farmers' Union to focus on implementing 8 groups of tasks and solutions in the direction of "ecological agriculture, modern rural areas, civilized farmers".
Accordingly, continue to enhance the spirit of patriotism, self-reliance and political position of Vietnamese farmers in innovation and international integration; enhance the determination, not to accept poverty and backwardness, realize the aspiration to get rich, contribute to promoting the country's rapid and sustainable development and farmers truly have a prosperous and happy life.
The Prime Minister also proposed raising farmers' awareness of developing large-scale agricultural products, smart, clean and safe agriculture, enhancing the application of scientific and technological achievements, actively integrating internationally, adapting to climate change, taking advantage of every opportunity, turning danger into opportunity and leaving no one behind.
The head of the Government requested that sectors and localities fully recognize the role of farmers in agricultural development, rural economy and new rural construction - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and localities to urgently direct, guide, and have people actively participate in effectively implementing the Project "Sustainable development of one million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030".
Reorganize production, strengthen linkages along the value chain; link production with processing and consumption of agricultural products on the basis of developing diverse forms of cooperation and linkages between households and cooperative organizations and enterprises, taking enterprises as the center and driving force to improve production and business efficiency and ensure harmony of interests of participating entities; thoroughly implement the motto "if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together".
"We must strengthen linkages; diversify production and supply chains; enhance deep processing; expand healthy competitive markets; promote green production, high productivity, low emissions, and sustainable development," the Prime Minister noted. At the same time, he emphasized the need to renew old driving forces and add new development driving forces such as green economy, digital economy, circular economy, sharing economy, and knowledge economy.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Towards the goal of "Every farmer being able to access, exploit, and effectively use the digital data platform on agriculture, traceability, and reduce dependence on intermediaries from production, distribution to consumers" - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
The Head of Government requested that sectors and localities fully recognize the role of farmers in agricultural development, rural economy and new rural construction; improve the quality of vocational training and development for farmers and rural workers and service activities, consulting and supporting farmers in developing production and business; consolidate and improve the organizational apparatus, build a team of Union officials at all levels with sufficient qualities and capacity to meet the requirements of the tasks.
At the same time, proactively integrate, expand international cooperation, promote people-to-people diplomacy; focus on deploying resources and human resources to effectively implement projects and development strategies of the agricultural sector, with a focus on programs and projects on emission reduction and climate change response. In particular, it is necessary to focus resources on implementing the National Strategy on Green Growth for the period 2021-2030 and vision to 2050; in which the agricultural sector needs to effectively implement plans to reduce greenhouse gas and methane emissions in agricultural production.
Ministries, sectors, organizations and localities focus on promoting digital transformation in agriculture, identifying it as an objective practical requirement of development, a priority area for digital transformation, strongly changing the agricultural production-processing-business chain, towards the goal of "Every farmer has the ability to access, exploit and effectively use the digital data platform on agriculture, the traceability platform, reducing dependence on intermediaries from production, distribution to consumers".
The Prime Minister believes that with new momentum and new motivation, from the 8th National Congress of the Vietnam Farmers' Union, term 2023-2028, our country's agriculture and rural areas will increasingly develop and Vietnamese farmers will continue to affirm their increasingly important role and position, as General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong wished "Wishing the Vietnamese peasant class to continuously grow strong, truly be the subject and center of the process of agricultural development, rural economy and new rural construction!"./.
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