Towards ecological agriculture

According to Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tri, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, agriculture plays a particularly important role in ensuring food security, social stability, and livelihoods for over 60% of the population living in rural areas, and contributes 14.85% of the national GDP.

Currently, Vietnam's agricultural sector is moving towards ecological, low-emission, and sustainable agriculture combined with improving livelihoods for rural people. At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh committed Vietnam to striving to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as affirming Vietnam's participation in the "Global Methane Emission Reduction" initiative and the "Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use".

To fulfill these commitments, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tri believes that a great deal of effort is needed, not only from the Government , but also from the private sector, businesses, and direct producers, to unlock investment resources from the entire society and transform the production model from "growth in output, productivity, high input usage, and resource-intensive" to a model of "green, low-emission, and climate change-adaptive" agricultural growth.

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