Rice production in VN is forecast sharply next year when most farmers planned switch to growing crops more profitable.
According to one recent report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the continuous natural disasters seriously affect crop yields, reduce crop yields so that rural incomes are not enough for farmers to meet the most basic needs of them.
Also, input production costs rising, but export prices fell sharply amid stiff competition. Government failure to support farmers to increase the area under rice to expand production.
VN has maintained the second largest rice exporter in the world 2 years. Along with India, Thailand, the three countries accounted for 3/4 of total exports worldwide. The sharp decline of exports of rice will cause damage to the neighboring states and tend to favor the rival other rice exporters.
VN has many strengths in agriculture, especially paddy crop as the favorable weather conditions and a dense network of rivers but not fully leverage the great potential to become the first national sustainable modern agriculture.
The government has asked the agricultural research agencies and transfer of modern technology to farmers to industrialize backward agriculture and encourage farmers to invest in crop and livestock production on a large scale in order to save the cost of inputs and increase yields .
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