Connecting regions for green transformation

On November 19, Agriculture and Environment Magazine (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) organized the Workshop 'Regional Linkage - Promoting Green Value Chain in Vietnamese Agriculture'.

Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment will focus on promoting regional connectivity, developing circular cooperation models, and enhancing the role of businesses, scientists, and local authorities. Photo: Minh Thanh.

Promoting green value chains

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Phung Duc Tien emphasized the importance of renewing thinking, perfecting institutions and promoting regional cooperation to build green, circular and sustainable agriculture.

According to the Deputy Minister, agriculture accounts for 11.5% of GDP, but is an important pillar of the economy with more than 60% of the population living in rural areas. In the context of natural disasters, epidemics and market fluctuations, the agricultural sector still maintains its pivotal role, ensuring food security and creating a large trade surplus. Accordingly, by the end of October this year, agricultural exports reached a surplus of 17.59 billion USD, up 16.4% and are expected to reach 70 billion USD for the whole year.

“The Central Resolution 768 and the orientations for developing green agriculture, circular economy, and organic agriculture are opening up great opportunities for Vietnam to create unique, indigenous product groups that are globally competitive. The application of science and technology, digital transformation, traceability, and the advantages of the seven ecological economic zones will help form sustainable agricultural value chains,” the Deputy Minister affirmed.

The workshop “Regional Linkage - Promoting Green Value Chains in Vietnamese Agriculture” took place this morning (November 19). Photo: Minh Thanh .

However, leaders of the agriculture and environment sectors also warned of the severe impacts of climate change with natural disaster damage estimated at nearly VND70,000 billion this year. The Deputy Minister emphasized that tasks such as production - forecasting - prevention - recovery must be synchronous, linked to the goal of reducing emissions, implementing international commitments and the national strategy on green growth.

To achieve that goal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment will continue to focus on promoting regional linkages, developing circular cooperation models, enhancing the role of businesses, scientists and local authorities. Along with that, solutions on technology transfer, international standard certification, food safety and traceability will be promoted to build regional agricultural product brands.

“Promoting green value chains is not only the task of the agricultural sector, but also the responsibility of the whole society. Only with close coordination between the State - enterprises - people - international organizations can we comprehensively change the agricultural production and consumption ecosystem, towards a modern, green and globally competitive agricultural sector,” Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien affirmed.

According to Editor-in-Chief of Agriculture and Environment Magazine Dao Xuan Hung, developing green value chains is an important direction to increase added value and promote environmentally friendly agricultural production. Photo: Minh Thanh .

Green agriculture needs strong links

According to Mr. Dao Xuan Hung, Editor-in-Chief of Agriculture and Environment Magazine, after 6 years of implementing Decree 98, the whole country has formed more than 3,500 value chain linkage models, attracting 300,000 farmer households to participate through nearly 2,000 cooperatives and cooperative groups. About 70% of the models have the participation of cooperatives in the role of organizing raw material areas, signing contracts and controlling quality. The total mobilized capital reached over 20,000 billion VND, of which enterprises contributed 50-60%.

“The above figures show that the risk-sharing trend is becoming increasingly clear in modern agricultural production. However, the chain linkage is still unsustainable, not closed from production - processing - market; support procedures are still complicated and efficiency between localities is not uniform... At the same time, the agricultural sector has to face climate change, emission reduction requirements, increasingly strict international standards, as well as management changes when local authorities switch to a two-tier model from July 1, 2025.”

The leaders of the Agriculture and Environment Magazine also affirmed that developing a green value chain is an important direction to increase added value, promote environmentally friendly agricultural production, form concentrated raw material areas, optimize logistics, expand high-end markets and aim for a net zero emission target.

To achieve these goals, close coordination between the State, enterprises, scientists, cooperatives and farmers is needed. At the same time, it is necessary to promote technology transfer, improve regional linkage mechanisms and encourage innovation.

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