The instructions of General Secretary To Lam are the compass for the agricultural sector.

The instructions of General Secretary To Lam are the guiding principle for the entire agricultural sector: "Putting farmers at the center of the entire development process; from each field to elevate the national brand, to each village to build a strong, prosperous, and happy Vietnam."

Farmer Pham Van Huong, Chairman of the Ninh Binh Province Farmers' Club, Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer of 2025 asked a question at the Forum.

Attending the Forum of the President of the Vietnam Farmers' Union , the Minister of Agriculture and Environment Listening to farmers talk in 2025 with the theme "Accompanying farmers to enter the new era" on the morning of November 2, farmer Pham Van Huong, President of the Ninh Binh Province Farmers' Club, Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer in 2025 asked the question: Implementing the important direction of General Secretary To Lam, in the coming time, the Vietnam Farmers' Union and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment will implement what tasks and solutions to realize the aspiration of bringing farmers into the new era?

"In addition, the Ninh Binh Province Farmers' Association is currently collaborating with Cuong Tan Company Limited to create and produce rice varieties. At the Forum, we hope that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Vietnam Farmers' Association will propose to the Party and State leaders policies to support, facilitate or organize delegations to bring outstanding farmers and typical farmers to Cuba or North Korea to visit, learn and explore cooperation opportunities," Mr. Huong shared.

Answering the question of farmer Pham Van Huong, Mr. Le Duc Thinh, Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Agricultural Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) said: The instructions of General Secretary To Lam are the guiding principle for the agricultural sector: "Putting farmers at the center of the entire development process; from each field, raising the national brand; from each village, building a strong, prosperous, and happy Vietnam".

Mr. Le Duc Thinh, Director of the Department of Cooperative Economics and Rural Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) answered the question of farmer Pham Van Huong.

Implementing that direction, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Vietnam Farmers' Union are focusing on implementing 4 key groups of tasks with specific results: First, continue to improve institutions and policies, promote empowerment for farmers and communities to take ownership. In recent times, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has shifted the institutional focus from "management" to "empowerment and service", taking people, cooperatives and enterprises as the center of the process of rural agricultural development.

The Ministry has completed Decree 131/2025/ND-CP and Circular 13/2025/TT-BNNMT on strong decentralization and delegation of power to local authorities in managing cooperative economy, poverty reduction and rural development, thereby giving more autonomy to grassroots communities. At the same time, it has promoted amendments to mechanisms and policies on land, credit, science and technology and digital transformation in agriculture, helping people access land, capital, knowledge, science and technology and markets more conveniently.

Along with that, the Ministry also decentralized the management of the new rural program and poverty reduction in the direction of "empowering communes and districts to proactively plan, people to monitor and decide on investment priorities", shifting from "support for people" to "cooperation with people".

Recently, the Ministry continued to issue Decision No. 4024/QD-BNNMT dated September 29, 2025 approving the "Project on emission reduction in crop production for the period 2025-2035, with a vision to 2050"; at the same time, expanding the emission reduction model to Central Highlands coffee, midland tea, and coastal aquaculture. In addition, the Ministry is also coordinating with international organizations (WB, FAO, JICA, IFAD) to build a Green Investment Fund in agriculture, support preferential credit, green agricultural insurance and develop low-emission agricultural value chains.

"In addition, developing the generation of "professional farmers - digital farmers", the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has identified the development of rural human resources and the generation of professional farmers as a strategic breakthrough in the coming period so that farmers can truly master technology, markets and value chains. At the same time, the Ministry is implementing the "Digital Farmer - Digital Agriculture - Digital Rural Area" Program in 10 provinces (Son La, Nam Dinh, Quang Ngai, Gia Lai, Tra Vinh...), helping farmers use electronic notebooks, traceability, digitalized production area maps, and agricultural e-commerce, thereby gradually transforming from "manual labor" to "production information administrators", said Mr. Le Duc Thinh.

The Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Agricultural Development added that the Ministry is working with the Vietnam Farmers' Association to research and develop the Strategy "Digital Farmers - Green Farmers - Kind Farmers" for the period 2026-2030, aiming to form a network of professional farmers - central cooperatives - accompanying enterprises, creating a new driving force for integrated and low-emission agriculture.

Building a civilized, secure, and compassionate countryside, and improving the living space of modern rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has determined that building a civilized, secure, and compassionate countryside is not only a target program, but also a comprehensive strategy for developing people, communities, and sustainable living space in rural Vietnam during the period when the national target program is unified into one.

Mr. Le Duc Thinh said that the Ministry is also finalizing the overall project for rural space development in the period 2026-2035, in which 3 breakthroughs are identified: One is upgrading the new rural areas into "Civilized - ecological - digitalized rural areas"; two is forming a value chain of craft villages - tourism - culture; three is developing basic social service infrastructure (education, health, environment, digital information) at all commune levels. These results show that Vietnam's rural areas are not only "escaping poverty", but are also "reaching civilization and happiness", in the spirit of General Secretary To Lam's emphasis: "From each village, we build a strong, prosperous, and affectionate Vietnam".

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/kinh-te/nhung-chi-dao-cua-tong-bi-thu-to-lam-la-kim-chi-nam-cho-nganh-nong-nghiep-20251102094058113.htm